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• If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.

  Rachel Bloom

  Would Be, World, My Own

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.

  Colin Ward

  Mean, Doe, Maps

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• Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

  George Orwell

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• 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

  Light, Numbers, People

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Goal, Left

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Stupid, Our World

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.

  Dan Eldon

  Children, Team, Eye

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• I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl along in life without even a glimpse of our hidden passion. There has to be a reason for living. There must be a Camelot, a hidden Utopia where we can rest from our personal campaigns. Fantasy opens our eyes to a better place, a shining city we do not yet know. And these stories provide a mental bridge to that city as we pursue horizons we could never distinguish with our physical eyes.

  Bryan Davis

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

  Bertrand Russell

  Diversity, Essentials, Investing

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.421, Routledge

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• Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

  Martin Amis

  Interesting, Want, Artistic

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Capitalism

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• Utopia means elsewhere.

  John Malkovich

  Mean, Elsewhere

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• The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

  Julia Roberts

  Movie, Jobs, Self

  Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

  Milan Kundera

  Attitude, People, Stupidity

  "Siraaj: An Arab Tale". Book by Radwa Ashour and Barbara Romaine, 2007.

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• Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

  Robert Silverberg

  Hands, Interesting, Boring

  FaceBook post by Robert Silverberg from May 16, 2014

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• 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.

  Theodor Adorno

  Culture, West, Decline

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.72, MIT Press

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• When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

  Steve Erickson

  War, Ideas, America

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• The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Awful, Lasts

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

  George Herbert

  Stupid, Taken, Science

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• Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Dream, Attitude, Sky

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.

  Colin Fletcher

  Weather, Long, Dresses

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• In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Boys, Pigs

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.176, H. G. Wells

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• You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

  Penn Jillette

  Sex, Believe, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

  Henry Kuttner

  Want, Dies, I Want To Die

  Henry Kuttner (2015). “The Creature from Beyond Infinity”, p.150, Booklassic

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• Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Race, Humanity, Finals

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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