Quotes About Utopian Society

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

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. Who are you, Nature?
I live in you;
for fifty years I have been seeking you,
and I have not found you yet.

Voltaire

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

Plato

#8. 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

#9. Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

George Herbert

#10. Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.

Brandi Chastain

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

Daniel Clausen

#12. I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.

Lawrence Weschler

#13. If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Paul Farmer

#14. 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

#15. We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

Paul Watson

#16. 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

#17. The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

Max Muller

#18. 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

#19. Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Robert Evans

#20. 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

#21. May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#22. Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.

Katy Butler

#23. If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.

Nikki Rowe

#24. My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Franz Boas

#25. Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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

David Cooperrider

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

A.E. Samaan