Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
… no civilization can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
Home is pretty utopian.
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.
We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, and risk will be no more.
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption.
Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.
A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.