Tom Verica Quotes

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

Utopia means elsewhere.

We can make this country the garden of Eden.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

Let's build Paradise again.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Without the Utopians 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.

Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

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

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.