Utopia Quotes

...I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think that it is the place where fear and doubt end with the realization that around you is everything you need, and there is nothing else to find.

~ Kira Salak

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

~ Shelby Foote

Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.

~ Daniel Xiao Wang

And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells's indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in his Utopia of all patriotic boundaries. He says in his innocent way that Utopia must be a world-state, or else people might make war on it. It does not seem to occur to him that, for a good many of us, if it were a world-state we should still make war on it to the end of the world. For if we admit that there must be varieties in art or opinion what sense is there in thinking there will not be varieties in government? The fact is very simple. Unless you are going deliberately to prevent a thing being good, you cannot prevent it being worth fighting for. It is impossible to prevent a possible conflict of civilizations, because it is impossible to prevent a possible conflict between ideals. If there were no longer our modern strife between nations, there would only be a strife between Utopias. For the highest thing does not tend to union only; the highest thing, tends also to differentiation. You can often get men to fight for the union; but you can never prevent them from fighting also for the differentiation. This variety in the highest thing is the meaning of the fierce patriotism, the fierce nationalism of the great European civilization. It is also, incidentally, the meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity.

~ G.k. Chesterton

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Freeways flickering; cell phones chiming a tuneWe're riding to Utopia; road map says we'll be arriving soonCaptains of the old order clinging to the reinsAssuring us these aches inside are only growing painsBut it's a long road out of Eden(...)Behold the bitten apple, the power of the toolsBut all the knowledge in the world is of no use to foolsAnd it's a long road out of Eden

~ Eagles

You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the 'truth'. Those who are with the 'truth' are a minority, whom you may call Utopians.

~ Kandathil Sebastian

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely.

~ Norman Davies

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

~ Aldous Huxley

Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a man’s blood killed his own mana - his honor, his worth, his standing & his soul. No Moriori would shelter, feed, converse with, or even see the persona non grata. If the ostracized murderer survived his first winter, the desperation of solitude usually drove him to a blowhole on Cape Young, where he took his life.Consider this, Mr. D’Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans’s best guess) enshrine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in word & in deed & frame an oral “Magna Carta” to create a harmony unknown elsewhere for the sixty centuries since Adam first tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. War was as alien a concept to the Moriori as the telescope is to the Pygmy. Peace, not a hiatus betwixt wars but millennia of imperishable peace, rules these far-flung islands. Who can deny Old Rekohu lay closer to More’s Utopia than our States of Progress governed by war-hungry princelings in Versailles & Vienna, Washington & Westminster? “Here,” declaimed Mr. D’Arnoq, “and where only, were those elusive phantasms, those noble savages, framed in flesh & blood!” (Henry, as we later made our back to the Musket confessed, “I could never describe a race of savages too backwards to throw a spear as ‘noble.

~ David Mitchell

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.

~ Albert Einstein

The promise to save or create a ‘perfect’ humanity is almost always only and excuse for the urge to rule it.

~ Moxie Will

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.

~ Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

~ Victor Hugo

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

~ Rush Limbaugh

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

~ Tariq Ali

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

~ Wayne Dyer

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

~ Theodor Adorno

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

~ Pedro Almodóvar