Utopia Quotes - Page 2

Utopias are often just premature truths.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

Utopia means elsewhere.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

There was a period when the utopian scenario was almost true - when we felt that you could do almost anything in a club, as long as it was any good. There was no rigid expectation from the audience as to how it had to be delivered. But this didn't last very long. It was almost palpable, the decline of this in the new millennium.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

Home is pretty utopian.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.