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

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.

The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.

But the question is, historically, part of the group that you’re a part of – whether it’s racial, gender, religious, whatever – how has your group fared historically? The groups that you’re a part of?...

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.

Rakyat yang nasionalis hendaknya belajar menghemat energi. Pemimpin dan pemerintahan yang nasionalis hendaknya memikirkan cara-cara penghematan, bukan mengeksploitas sisa sumber daya alam yang kita miliki. Kembangkan sistem transportasi massal yang memadai, sehingga jumlah kendaraan di...

Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can’t because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million...

I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives...

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who...

I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful...

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

What fueled this hatred? Society.

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it’s not my genre.

…I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society–call it communism, if you will–in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from...

norms” of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter million pieces of sf and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist...

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

She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.

Basically, if you’re not a utopianist, you’re a schmuck.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

I could never describe a race of savages too backwards to throw a spear as ‘noble.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The world needs more laws. I say this only because I believe the world needs more lawyers. If everybody was a lawyer, there’d be no unemployment, because the economy would be like a great lawsuit...

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

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.