204 Quotes About Utopia

The function of the state and of its structures in such a society are limited only to that which cannot be performed by anyone else. [Quoting Valclad Havel] 146

Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia.' 206

...in Petushki the jasmine never stops blooming and the birds always sing...

Intelligent people have said again and again: "How easily men could make things much better than they are-if they only all tried togetherl". But people never do "all try together," because the principle of natural selection guarantees that self-prop systems will act mainly for their own survival and propagation in competition with other self-prop systems, and will not sacrifice competitive advantages for the achievement of philanthropic goals.

Against those who are indebted to the allegorical utopian model and its offshoots, the Memory Palace proves that alternatives to the tribal consensus exists. Furthermore, this alternative is a leap away, is deeply discontinuous with the allegorists' endless internal struggles for refinement. It promises not quite freedom but the fact that a careful look at history as achievement rather than ruination offers solid evidence that the allegorical utopian has about it no necessity at all.

The point of creating futures is to get people to imagine what they want and don’t want to happen down the road – and maybe do something about it.

the path that leads to utopia is not necessarily itself utopian

Che è come dire, ragazzi, dissi, che vedevo gli sforzi e i sogni, tutti confusi nello stesso fallimento, e che quel fallimento si chiamava gioia.Ed. Adelphi, pag. 406

In the age of cyberspace, Lenin lies in ruins.