204 Quotes About Utopia

Complacency is the enemy, Mycroft, not xenophobia. An old phoenix needs burning

Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.

The promise to save or create a ‘perfect’ humanity is almost always only and excuse for the urge to rule it.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.

I'd rather say something untrue than tell a lie. In short, I'd rather be honest than clever.

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.

Morality is relevant only to the extent that the ideal has not been realized, but there is no room at all for morality in the ideal itself, just as there is no room for revolution in the ideal which inspires revolutionary action

I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful love, earth.