John de Mol Jr. Quotes

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.

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.

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

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.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

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

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

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

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

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.

There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.

Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.

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 belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.