Top 214 Utopian Quotes & Sayings

When you have a vision of where you need to go, it sounds utopian. But when you get to the tipping point, your understanding switches.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.

Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.

The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their own way without participating with other people outside of their communities, were all piecemeal reforms. That's what makes a utopian a utopian, this idea that they were going to create a whole new world from scratch.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

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

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago.

I am not arguing for a utopian society; equal opportunity for all, though ideal, is unrealistic.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that utopian dreams are dangerous.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.

Home is pretty utopian.

Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.

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

All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.

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.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

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

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

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

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

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

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.

I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace - and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.

On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism, libertarianism is a utopian worldview based on an economic-determinist vision of history. Unlike Marxism, libertarianism is highly specific in its predictions about the transition to the utopian world order, rendering it vulnerable to fact.

Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.

We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal. It is constructive, it is helpful, it is healthy, to think about what future society might be like, because then it guides you somewhat what you are doing today, but only so long as this discussions about future society don't become obstacles to working towards this future society. Otherwise you can spend discussing this utopian possibility versus that utopian possibility, and in the mean time you are not acting in a way that would bring you closer to that.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

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.

Everyone's a mixed bag. I'm a utopian social anarchist, but I'm also a pragmatist.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

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.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.