Quotes tagged ‘Utopia’

(8 total)

“Utopians assume that the particular society they describe will operate without certain problems arising, that social mechanisms and institutions will function as they predict, and that people will not act from certain motives and interests. They blandly ignore certain obvious problems that anyone wi…”

— Robert Nozick, amazon.com

“Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives under different institutions.”

— Robert Nozick, amazon.com

“No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. But doesn’t the idea, or ideal, of the minimal state lack luster?”

— Robert Nozick, amazon.com

“Utopia comes from the Greek words meaning no-place. The impossibility of its own existence is built into the very concept. A global society free from problems, in which every desire is met, has proven unrealistic—a failure, even. But the brilliant thing about the web is its ability to host multiple…”

— Becca abbe, are.na

“Cycle tracks will abound in utopia.”

— H.G. Wells, howwegettonext.com

“The Plan for a Green New Deal shall recognize that a national, industrial, economic mobilization of this scope and scale is a historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the trans…”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, docs.google.com

“In just moments, 12 players will be plucked from their lives, stripped of everything, and will travel through time. Half to a futuristic utopia where unimaginable comfort is just a click away. The other to the past—a primeval wilderness of darkness and despair.”

— Luke Tipple, imdb.com

“The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, un…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com