Utopia Quotes
""The word Utopia stands in common usage for the ultimate in human folly or human hope - vain dreams of perfection
in a Never-Never Land or rational efforts to remake man's environment and his institutions and even his erring nature, to enrich the possibilities of the common life. Sir Thomas More, the coiner of this word, was aware of both implications. Lest anyone else should miss them, he elaborated his paradox in a quatrain which, unfortunately, has sometimes been omitted from English translations of his Utopia. This book, at last, gave a name to a much earlier series of efforts to picture ideal commonwealths. More was a punster in an age when the keenest minds delighted to play tricks with language and when it was not always wise to speak too plainly. In his little verse, he explained that utopia might refer either to the Greek 'eutopia', which means the good place, or to 'utopia', which means no place". - Lewis Mumford (in The Story of Utopias, 1922).
Vol. 6, No. 3; June 2016 (abstract 13). http://aijcrnet.com/journal/index/1029
"Utopias are models for mimesis usually timed for the future, and the best of them may have influenced many readers. We do not claim them to be formative to civilisation except as they are related to ideals affecting man's behaviour and giving him new aims". - Nell Eurich (in Science in Utopia, 1967).
"Utopias have often been plans of societies functioning mechanically, dead structures conceived by economists, politicians and moralists; but they have also been the living dream of poets." - Marie Louise Berneri (in Journey Through Utopia, first published posthumously in 1950).
What is Science Fiction Poetry? • Poetry School. https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/what-is-science-fiction-poetry/
"We should think of utopia as a group that had the freedom, will, energy, and talent to make and remake their lives unencumbered by insufficiency and the fear of violent death". - George Kateb (from the preface to Utopia and Its Enemies, 1972 edition).
Happiness Is Notoriously Difficult To Describe – Common Errant. http://btownerrant.com/2015/08/27/happiness-is-notoriously-difficult-to-describe/?replytocom=164899
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. When humanity lands there, it looks out and sets sail, seeing a better country. Progress is the realisation of Utopias." - Oscar Wilde.
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"Without the Utopias of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first city... Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future". - Anatole France.
"The world is now too dangerous for anything less than Utopia." - R. Buckminster Fuller.\
Inspirational Quotes About Utopia | Hearts and Minds®. https://www.heartsandminds.org/inspire/utopia/
