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• Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Ambition, People, Goal

  Nadine Gordimer (1980). “Burger's Daughter”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Theodor Adorno

  Abstract, Fulfilled, Eternal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.157, Verso

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

  Paul Wellstone

  Perfect, Political, Should

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

  Frank Herbert

  Progress, Shields, Terror

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

  Ira Sachs

  Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Toni Morrison

  Isolation, Separateness

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. March 08, 1998.

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Twenties, Firsts, Social

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.33, Random House

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• Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Two, Horizon

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• All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Angel, Wings, People

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• [The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so they can impose their socialist 'utopia' of higher taxes, restricted access, inferior quality, and deadly inefficiency on the best health care system in the world....You and the RNC are all that stand between the Democrats' scheme to take more of your hard-earned income to pay for this unsustainable, freedom destroying entitlement and an opportunity to work for real, truly bipartisan step-by-step solutions.

  Michael Steele

  Real, Opportunity, Quality

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• We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

  Julius Nyerere

  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Thinking, Worry, Different

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• What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ideas, People, Vision

  Greg Gutfeld (2012). “The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage”, p.140, Crown Forum

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• In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Book, Here I Am

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Expectations, Political, Trying

  Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

  Roland Barthes

  Dream, Men, Expression

  Roland Barthes (1997). “The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be ideal societies; translating this into the language of mathematics, we might say that utopias bear a + sign. The other feature, organically growing out of the content, is to be found in the form: a utopia is always static; it is always descriptive and has no, of almost no, plot dynamics.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Two

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• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Effort, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Political Ideals”, p.16, Bertrand Russell

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• Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

  Julio Cortazar

  Eden, Paradise, Nostalgia

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.210, Everyman's Library

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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

  Wyndham Lewis

  Construction, Chiefs, Materials

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

  Karen Joy Fowler

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• 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

  People, Faces, Sticks

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

  Pedro Almodovar

  Thinking, Romantic Relationship

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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