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  • Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

    Art   Reality   Becoming  
    Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.132, MIT Press
  • Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.

    Race   Humanity   Finals  
    "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.
  • Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

    Cities   People   Utopia  
  • We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?

    Real   People   Vision  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.

    Real   Future   Past  
  • Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.

  • Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

  • A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  • Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

  • The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

    "Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity".
  • Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ, nirvana. It is not a historical prospect, but a current mythology. Socialism, by contrast, is a realizable historical system which may one day be instituted in the world.

  • All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

    "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", www.princeton.edu. March 9, 1998.
  • Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

    "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
  • Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

    Plato   Liars   Way  
  • Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

    Dream   Political   World  
  • Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

    Song: Utopia, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002
  • 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.

    Sex   Want   Utopia  
    "Obama Same as Bush" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 18, 2010.
  • 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.

    Men   Ideas   Judging  
    Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
  • Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

  • You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

    Perfect   Use   Realizing  
  • Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.

    Offering   Style   Groups  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.

    Doe   World   Maps  
    "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".
  • Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.

    Religious   Book   Law  
    John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.3, Penguin
  • Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

    Men   Self   Ideas  
    Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr
  • The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.

    Mean   Doe   Maps  
  • ....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

  • The Vision 2030 is aimed at transforming Kenya from a struggling third-world economy into a second world economy - We do believe that it is a realizable objective; we don't believe that it is utopia. We know that it has been done in some.

  • Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

    Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
  • Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

    "Desire and Need". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1967.
  • The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.

    Fall   Hard Work   Long  
    Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.8, Albert Einstein Institution
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