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• The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

  Niall Ferguson

  History, Racist, Prosperity

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• If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Fate, Men

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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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• 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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• Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

  Dan Simmons

  Perfect, Creative, Mixtures

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.261, Spectra

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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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• 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.

  Penn Jillette

  Sex, Want, Left

  "Obama Same as Bush" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 18, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

  Peter King

  Dream, President, United States

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• I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beach, Children, School

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.300, Orb Books

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• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Land, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1051, Wordsworth Editions

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• To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted.
  Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Sacrifice, Skills

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

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• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  William James

  Lonely, Independent, Science

  William James (2012). “The Will to Believe and Human Immortality”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Atheist, Inspiration, Men

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• When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.

  Martin Amis

  Determination, Russia, Ideas

  "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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• In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

  Stuart Pearce

  Football, Winning, Goal

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