Utopia Quotations

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.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

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

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

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.

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

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia

Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.

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

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.

It did not make me feel very comfortable because of the valuations that were starting to be placed on these technology stocks. They were almost discounting utopia until the end of this century, and that really is a scary scenario.

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action...

Utopias are often just premature truths.

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

Is Green Bay unique to the world, where there is this management utopia in place?

I see this as a win-win solution. First, we retain ownership which keeps the land permanently within the public domain and thus available for all future generations. Second, the Utopia Grist Mill Committee will have an opportunity to continue pursuing its vision of restoring the mill.

The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

One day information services will be looked at as a necessary service just like water and sewer. We're getting more and more interest from the community for this service. We're in love with the technology - not so much the provider. We love what UTOPIA has to offer and if there's others that want to come and talk to us - they're welcome.

A lot of artists say they'd be happy in a classless society. But artists are often the first to deceive themselves. Put them in the kind of utopia they sentimentalize, and in no time, they would be binding their feet, lengthening their necks or flattening their heads, just to be different.

All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.

To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail

In response to the town's invitation, the town's attorneys can expect to hear from Utopia to move this forward.

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.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

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

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.

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

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

Misery motivates, not utopia.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

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.

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.

The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

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

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

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.

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.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

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

Utopia means elsewhere.

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

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

The really damaging thing is that the objectives, the goals of the people on the left are not possible. There is no utopia.

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

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

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

I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.

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

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.

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

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.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

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

Progress is the realization of utopia.