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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. Michael Ignatieff
Politics Truth People Genocide Madness Political Promises Society Crisis Temptation More Remains Since Beyond End Any Just Difference Form Enduring Land Multicultural Utopia Deeply
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Kurt Vonnegut
Cancer Will Flush Ways Find Mars Primitive Erie Cure Get Human Human Beings Lake Happier Again Racial Inhabit Prejudice Communities Beings Utopia Eliminate
Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true. Roxane Gay
Dreams Long Walks Our Our Dreams Kind Beach True Come Supposed Becomes Where Grail Romantic Place Holy Holy Grail Evening Utopia
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. Charles Albert Gobat
Today Reality Progress Political Tomorrow Hopeless Become Endeavor Those Laugh Would Logic Constant Plunge True Conceived Fresh Am Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal Optimistic Human Regards Which Social Mankind Pessimism Who Utopia
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller
Me Book Sweet Embarrassment Out Talk Without Am Friends Gracious Disenfranchised Senses Literature Barrier Utopia Awkwardness Here
God has a plan for you - I can promise you that. Your life is sacred. There is and always has been a path for your soul, and if you follow that path, it will lead you to the inner utopia that your soul longs to experience in this lifetime. Debbie Ford
Life God You Soul Experience Path Will Has-Been Promise Follow Sacred Lifetime Lead Longs Always Been God Has A Plan Plan Your Utopia Inner
In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not? Ken Liu
You Class Benefits Somebody Revolution Every Else Winners Losers Just Depends Where Dystopia Utopia
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. Mario Vargas Llosa
Life Art You Yourself Revenge Result Achieve Problems Totalitarianism Hell Society Way Relief Write Writer Attempt Catastrophe Bound Saints Persecution Any Repression Want Achieves Which Social Utopia
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. Lionel Trilling
Heart Cynical Believe Living State Only Authoritarian Form Utopia Utopian Profoundly Imagine
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? Margaret Atwood
You People Problem Every Faces Stick Fit Same Just Literary Who Utopia
Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia. Elaine Chao
Every Views Activists Utopia Right
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. Comte de Lautreamont
Great Family Men Worthy Logic Most Utopia Universal Mediocre
Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. Godfried Danneels
Great Prosperity Despite Earth Evident Melted Cities Scarcely Polar New Global Global Warming New Jersey Oceans Ice Warming Caps Flooded Jersey Utopia Levels Raised
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Gunter Grass
Work Age Conflict Will Busy Melancholy Absolute Dawn Soon Come Principle Without Perpetually Leisure Then Busyness Utopia Utopian Consciousness Coincide
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. Henry Kissinger
Blessed Past Other Horizon Recovered Never Beyond American Just Nations Utopia
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city. Joel Sternfeld
Nature People Some People Consider City Some Derived Utopia
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia. Margaret Atwood
People Problem Every Our Out Lights Know Within Go Huge Huge Number Going Little Dystopia Who Now Specialized Utopia Right Number
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading! Veronica Roth
You Conflict World Worth Reading Everything Telling Perfect Without Stories Which Succeed Created Creating Utopia Actually
With 'Utopia,' definitely it's more the idea of trying to put across a message rather than just entertaining the audience. It's entertaining as well, but there's also a lot of other things that are going on. Adeel Akhtar
Other Definitely Entertaining Rather More Put Idea Also Message Well Audience Lot Than Trying Going Just Across Utopia Things
In a world where families are drowning on beaches to escape war, leaving the church because of sexual abuse, or denied access because of sexual orientation, the utopia that Pope Francis desires may be impossible for the church to attain. Anthea Butler
War World Impossible Church Francis Sexual Beaches Attain Abuse Drowning Because Access Leaving Denied Escape Families May Where Pope Orientation Utopia Desires
I'm a grandfather now, and when I watch children's shows with my two-year-old grandson, Arlo, I'm delighted because it's completely non-traditional casting. It feels like a utopia. How the world should be. Art Malik
World Two-Year-Old Casting Delighted Feels Like Because Non-Traditional How Children Grandfather Should Grandson Shows Now Utopia Watch
Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things. Ashton Eaton
You Creative Better New Things Young Minds Way Mentally Better Things New Like Because Stimulated Lot Different Wanting Different Things Challenged Utopia Things Universities
I don't see a utopia anywhere for me. Bozoma Saint John
Me See Anywhere Utopia
Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia. Brendan I. Koerner
Late Earnestly Castro Particularly Cuba American Egalitarian Large Large Number Believed Utopia Number
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. Christian de Portzamparc
Architecture Dangerous Vision Destruction Old Destroy City Percent Paris Student Understand Buildings Campaign Replacing Did Thankfully Modern Happen Them Realized Richness Utopia
My family went to the Hamptons, so I understand what happens when a slice of perfect utopia gets overdeveloped, when one way of living is replaced by another. Doug Liman
Family Living Slice Way One-Way Perfect Another Understand Replaced Gets Happens Utopia
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