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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. — Margaret Atwood

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo

Physical pain is the point where utopian life meets real, hard life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics. — A.E. Samaan

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy. — Shane Claiborne

Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs. — Camille Paglia

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. — Henry Rollins

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that
matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell

Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn't a utopian is a shmuck. — Cory Doctorow

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security. — Ban Ki-moon

All human efforts to communicate - even in the same language - are equally utopian, equally luminous with value, and equally worth the doing. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays ... — Aldous Huxley

A utopian future where we shed our bodies and upload our minds into computers and live forever, virtual, immortal, disembodied. Heaven for hackers. — Brian Christian

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism. — A.E. Samaan

a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula — Kate Atkinson

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from. — Aldous Huxley

Home is pretty utopian. — Scott Adams

the only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian. — Slavoj Zizek

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional. — A.E. Samaan

It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity. — Sverker Sorlin

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher

Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction. — Michael Wall

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers. — Jacque Fresco

The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. — Ludwig Von Mises

The militant Utopian, the perfectibilizer, from the outset, is in a malevolent rage at the obvious fact of human imperfectibility. — Martin Amis

But every
kind of socialism is Utopian, most of all scientific socialism. Utopia replaces God by the future. — Albert Camus

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing. — David Cooperrider

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. — Michael Novak

All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago. — Stanley Druckenmiller

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian. — Keith Henson

It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as Utopian proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for war. — Arundhati Roy

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. — Denise Levertov

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan

You gotta beware of the utopian train of thought, mate. That's usually the first step towards fascism. — Daniel Clausen

Wikipedia is run by hippies of course - the same kind of impractical utopian losers who gave us the first affordable desktop computer and the iPod — Andre The BFG

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised. — Wernher Von Braun

It has been said that later in life Marx developed a less Utopian view of communism, but it is difficult to find much evidence of this. — Anonymous

Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset. — Tyffani Clark Kemp

Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it. — Pat Buchanan

The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. — Kate Millett

The evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own. — Reinhold Niebuhr

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied. — Alan Kay

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it. — Veronica Roth

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries. — Thomas Piketty

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change. — Jacque Fresco

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism. — A.E. Samaan

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. — H.G.Wells

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. — Marina Abramovic

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society. — Ezra Taft Benson

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. — Shah Rukh Khan

Now I must leave you as you enter the world that is Fuck. You are fucking lucky to be here. It's almost utopian. — Lewis Black

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"?? — A.E. Samaan

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune. — Christopher Hitchens

It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distances, so there was also no closeness. — David Pratt

There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History. — Lee Penn

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian. — Raymond Aron

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way. — Martin Amis

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though. — Jenny Hval