Quotes About Utopia And Dystopia

#1. All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.

Joel Sternfeld

#2. If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

Stephen D. Krashen

#3. Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Margaret Atwood

#4. All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

A.E. Samaan

#5. Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.

Mackenzie Draman

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

Lois Lowry

#7. Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath

Kameron Hurley

#8. A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.

Robert Friedrich

#9. Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Gertrude Stein

#10. Satan, you clown, you want to dissolve me with your charms. Well, I want it. I want it! Stab me with a pitchfork, sprinkle me with fire!

Arthur Rimbaud

#11. 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 utopian hope.

Norman O. Brown

#12. I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Heather O'Neill

#13. Alas, love turns the human heart into a mildewed garden, a lush and shameless garden in which grow mysterious, obscene toadstools.

Knut Hamsun

#14. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

#15. But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?

Anton Chekhov

#16. In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as primitive.

Albert Einstein

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

A.E. Samaan

#18. At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.

Erich Fromm

#19. What you're about to read is based on true events. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. And it will break your heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Melissa M. Futrell