Utopian Dreams Quotes

“The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.”
― Peter Hitchens

“Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught but a very ancient superstition of the past, how amazed men will be to think that their ancestors were able to endure that religion of torture and nihility!”
― Émile Zola, Paris

“Some countries believe that, once they have rid themselves of a monarchy and become a republic, they have morphed into a kind of Utopia. When, in fact, they have merely created another set of compromises for themselves.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Freedom isn't morally neutral; the emancipation if offers is a means, not an end in itself.”
― Tobias Jones, Utopian Dreams

“It is a turn for the worse to nurse the idea of a full purse without appropriate force to back it up.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Unfortunately, wacky ideas have dominated the public dialogue in tech to the point that important conversations about social issues have been drowned out or dismissed for years. Some of the ideas that come out of Silicon Valley include buying islands in New Zealand to prep for doomsday; seasteading, or building islands out of discarded shipping containers to create a new paradise without government or taxes; freezing cadavers so that the deceased's consciousness can be uploaded into a future robot body; creating oversized dirigibles; inventing a meal-replacement powder named after dystopian sci-fi movie Soylent Green; or making cars that fly. These ideas are certainly creative, and it's important to make space in life for dreamers–but it's equally important not to take insane ideas seriously. We should be cautious. Just because someone has made a mathematical breakthrough or made a lot of money, that doesn't mean we should listen to them when they suggest aliens are real or suggest that in the future it will be possible to reanimate people, so we should keep smart people's brains in large freezers like the ones used for frozen vegetables at Costco.”
― Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

“The fall from Eden is really an allegory for our transition from hunter-gatherers to an agrarian society. Before the fall we lived in a utopia, free of artificial social constructs.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy