Utopia, Utopians Quotes

… shining city upon a hill

Communism only works in Heaven, where they don’t need it, and in hell, where they’ve already got it.

Communism is nonsense.

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

Socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today., the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from earth but to set up Heaven on Earth

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

I have seen the future, and it works.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.

Our freer, but yet far from freed, land is the asylum, if asylum there be, for the hope of man.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

All this and heaven too.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.