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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...

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Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system ...

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Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, ...

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And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Ge...

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In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High...

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I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...

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We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

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Marge PiercyWoman on the Edge of Time

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and si...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally pr...

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Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited po...

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realisticall...

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I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on s...

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Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception....

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Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. ...

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Sheri S. TepperThe Gate to Women's Country

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask ques...

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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world h...

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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or ruler...

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This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure,...

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The change of the word does not alter the matter

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems no...

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Victor Davis HansonCarnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized an...

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She shook her head. "It sounds suspiciously like Nirvana." "What's wrong with that?" "Pure Spirit, o...

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It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed