34 Utopian Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias. Steven Weinberg

Socialism Gave Nineteenth Ghastly Everywhere Failed Idea Most Influential Banner Which China Centuries Stalin Us Mao Twentieth Utopian

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. Emma Goldman

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

Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive. David Graeber

You Problem Money Will Revolution Entirely Seems Proposing Naive Particular Like Particular Problem Know Look Answer Always How Been Exist Question Revolutionaries After Hard Function Utopian Actually Eliminate

Britain rightly sees herself as a global good citizen, but she must reconcile ambition with power, ends with means - shedding utopian idealism in favour of a more rugged internationalism, putting the national interest first, not last. Dominic Raab

Good Rugged Citizen Power First National Ambition Herself Rightly Must Reconcile Favour More Sees Putting Idealism Global She Shedding National Interest Ends Interest Means Good Citizen Internationalism Utopian Last Britain

I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you. Douglas Rushkoff

Life Food Needs You People Money Value First Nothing Society Extra Other Put Instead Know For The People Around Provide Up Any Bank Order Form Working Hard Utopian Last Third Two-Thirds

Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate. Evgeny Morozov

Debate Social Media Internet Pressure Collective Action Difficult More Deliberation Never-Ending Participation Makes Jump Contrary Often Heavy Rhetoric Social Internal Even Media Utopian

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. Hjalmar Branting

Peace Meetings States Statesmen Would Participating League Most Annual Quarter Effect Official Regarded Century Assembly Binding Utopian Extent

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. John Desmond Bernal

Time Peace Humanity Sex Side Sight Hunger Plenty Dream Longer Primitive Looks Within Permanent Permanent Peace Still Arrival Were Existence Dominate Human Human Existence Awaits Satisfaction Utopian Present Present Time

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. Lois Lowry

Racism Words World Language Poverty Power Society Fluency Bad Futuristic Sexism Only Giver Mythical Divorce Attention Contained Also Wrote Precision So-Called After Pollution Paid Utopian Violence Set Careful

True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. Maurice Saatchi

People World Independence Aims Strike Way Everywhere Point Instead True Idealism Idealistic Ideals Practical Materialistic Provide Behalf Being Declaration Mechanical Chord Americanism Express Utopian Humans

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. Michael Novak

Christianity Too Jews Hopeful Unrealistic Judaism Turn Utopian Christians

It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. Mitch Kapor

Too Promise Distribution About Atomic Cheap Talk Talking Without Always Meter Been Questions Predictions Electricity Illegitimate Utopia Utopian

We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level, is quite amusingly silly but also on another probably very important. Nicolas Winding Refn

Time Equality Pure Important Live Constant Silly Vogue Also Another Very Quite Where Which Much Search Utopian Level

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality. Paul Craig Roberts

Reality Argued Excess Soviet Interaction Story Aspirations Utopian Speculative

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude - all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

People Unity Earth Synthesis Paradoxical Spirit Individuals Mankind Whole Element Multitude Utopian Necessary Biologically

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