Utopia Quotes

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Utopia is not one of the options.