Quotes About A Utopian Society

#1. The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.

A.E. Samaan

#3. Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

David Cooperrider

#4. The Utopian attempt to realize an ideal state, using a blueprint of society as a whole, is one which demands a strong centralized rule of a few, and which is therefore likely to lead to a dictatorship.

Karl Popper

#5. One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Edward Abbey

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. You gotta beware of the utopian train of thought, mate. That's usually the first step towards fascism.

Daniel Clausen

#9. This society of 'creatures that once were men' had one fine characteristic - no one of them endeavored to make out that he was better than the others, nor compelled the others to acknowledge his superiority.

Maxim Gorky

#10. Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Dean Cavanagh

#11. To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.

Paul Goodman

#12. Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the utopian messenger, pleasing us with his account of an ideal land but also warning us, in his tones, of all the dangers.

Edward Rothstein

#13. Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager