18 Quotes on Utopia

• I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

  Author: Marguerite Young

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

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

  Author: Michael Novak

• An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• Embracing the nostalgia of lost possibilities can illuminate paths untraveled; in wistful memories, we craft uncertain but vivid tapestries of what we hope could manifest.

  Author: Clara Desmond

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

  Author: Isidore Lautreamont

• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

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

  Author: Peter King

• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Author: Helen Keller

• The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

  Author: Rosabeth Kanter

• If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

  Author: Gunther Grass

• Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

  Author: Godfried Danneels

• 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.

  Author: Jack Carroll

• Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

  Author: Robert Bork

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

  Author: Theodor Adorno

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