A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.

Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.

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

This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight; and though this pleasure does not so powerfully affect us, nor...

(…)si nos convencemos de que la humanidad puede trascender colmillos y garras, si nos convencemos de que las diversas razas y credos pueden compartir pacíficamente la tierra, (…)si nos convencemos de que los gobernantes deben...

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and...

capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd...

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute...

You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.

Utopian speculations … must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a...

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of...

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...

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who...

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.

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

The ticket to Utopia ia real Love that springs from within us.

Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism...

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

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...

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you...

I’d likte to welcome you to the land of free, where healthy, wealthy, happy people contribute to the civilization under the protection of the rules of capitalism, laws of science and rights of universal suffrage.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything….The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There...

He favors traffic improvements when it pertains to Utopia, but he opposes them when they pertain to the tribe.

Reality is what people who lack vision see.

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

Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an economic unit contradicts capitalist development in two ways. First of all there exist...

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Ma forse, la morte non era altro che un’onda solitaria che andava a spegnersi a riva, mentre infinite altre continuavano a solcare il mare.

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...

A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined.

This world is better than Utopia because – and follow this point carefully – you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That’s the very definition of Utopia.

Cut! Go again.”And again, and again, and again. Finally, after the fourth of fifth take I yelled down the hill to the director: “This isn’t a fucking marathon! If we’re going to go again, tell...

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.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms, partly from the actual annihilation of matter through the union of electrons and...

And in heaven’s name, who are the public enemies?” exclaimed Dr. Leete. “Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you...

The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end. And...

It’s more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.

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...

Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.

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...

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

…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...

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens,...

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything.

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.