Utopia Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Anarchy, Wave, Decadence

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

  D. W Brogan

  Dream, Political, World

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

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Moments, Here And Now, Future Time

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

  H. G. Wells

  Trails, Cycles

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• The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias, and to fight for our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Believe

  "The Alchemy of Pilgrimage". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 14, 2014.

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

  Isaiah Berlin

  Horizon, Guides, Prove

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Utopia is not one of the options.

  David Bergland

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• All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

  Robert McNamara

  Animal, Men, Hands

  "McNamara in Context" by Errol Morris, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2009.

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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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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Feel Good, Political, May

  "Vicente del Bosque: Putting regional tensions aside has united Spain" by Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Children, Women

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

  William Wordsworth

  Islands, Heaven, World

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 11, l. 140

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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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• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Boredom, Revolution

  'End of an Age' (1948) ch. 6

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

  Roseanne Barr

  Common, Envisioning, International Peace

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

  Thomas Reed

  Progress, Matter, Today

  "Orations and addresses".

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• The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Dream, Opportunity, Destiny

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• The fundamental difference is that conservatives think man is created in God's image. Liberals think they [themselves] are gods - they want to create utopia on Earth with wealth redistribution, breaking the bonds of marriage and ties between parents and a child.

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Men, Thinking

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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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