Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in."
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Utopia
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Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Progress is the realization of utopia."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia."
Mario Vargas Llosa
Novelist, Essayist
"We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts."
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"The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence."
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"The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future."
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"Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts."
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"Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality."
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"Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence."
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"Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism."
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"Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness."
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"Cycle trails will abound in Utopia."
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"To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it."
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"To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia."
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"Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias."
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"The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one."
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