Utopias Quotes
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![Tom Stoppard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1659005707i/293._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves that the universe is modestly employed in unfolding our destination. We note the haphazard chaos of history by the day, by the hour, but there is something wrong with the picture. Where is the unity, the meaning, of nature's highest creation? Surely those millions of little streams of accident and wilfulness have their correction in the vast underground river which, without a doubt, is carrying us to the place where we're expected! But there is no such place, that's why it's called utopia. The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.”
― The Coast of Utopia
― The Coast of Utopia
![Toni Morrison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1494211316i/3534._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]”
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[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]”
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![Arthur C. Clarke](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1357191481i/7779._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”
― Childhood’s End
― Childhood’s End
![A.E. Samaan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1623607699i/7213330._UY200_CR25,0,200,200_.jpg)
“All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.”
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![Daniel Clausen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1698387142i/1254945._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“You gotta beware of the utopian train of thought, mate. That's usually the first step towards fascism.”
― The Ghosts of Nagasaki
― The Ghosts of Nagasaki
![Rebecca Solnit](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535567225i/15811._UY200_CR43,0,200,200_.jpg)
“."Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.”
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
![A.E. Samaan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1623607699i/7213330._UY200_CR25,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?”
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![Jared Taylor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263765563i/70024._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Perhaps it is time to question goals that run counter to near-universal behavior. There may be lessons for us in the failure of Soviet-style Communism. It is our era's foremost example of a system that made mesmerizing promises of an earthly paradise but betrayed those promises. Millions of people were inspired by an ideology that would do away with capitalist exploitation. Marxists believed that the working class would seize the means of production, the state would wither away, selfishness would disappear, and man would live 'from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.' In the name of this ideology millions gave their lives and took the lives of millions of others.
Communism failed. It failed for many reasons, not least because it was a misreading of human nature. Selfishness cannot be abolished. People do not work just as hard on collective farms as they do on their own land. The almost universal rejection of Communism today marks the acceptance of people as they are, not as Communism wished them to be.
Is it possible that our racial ideals assume that people should become something they cannot? If most people prefer the company of people like themselves, what do we achieve by insisting that they deny that preference? If diversity is a weakness rather than a strength, why work to increase diversity?”
― White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
Communism failed. It failed for many reasons, not least because it was a misreading of human nature. Selfishness cannot be abolished. People do not work just as hard on collective farms as they do on their own land. The almost universal rejection of Communism today marks the acceptance of people as they are, not as Communism wished them to be.
Is it possible that our racial ideals assume that people should become something they cannot? If most people prefer the company of people like themselves, what do we achieve by insisting that they deny that preference? If diversity is a weakness rather than a strength, why work to increase diversity?”
― White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
![Cory Doctorow](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1595482071i/12581._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She was in the zone, a human copressor for a complex system that used machines as a nervous system to wire together the intelligence of a global crowd of people she loved with all her heart.”
― Walkaway
― Walkaway
![Stewart Stafford](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547630381i/14583096._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Man's Utopian dreams get circumvented through compromise and disappointment into a tolerable reality.”
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“Some utopias become purer, harder, and harsher as they diminish, like an evaporating lake growing more saline every year in its shores of crystalline salt: think of the theorist-revolutionary Guy Debord, ostracizing and expelling people from the Situationist International movement until you could fit the future of artsy council communism around the back table of a Parisian bar. Some utopias dilute into the surrounding society that gives them context - the well-lit, spare, clean, glass-and-steel spaces of the Bauhaus are now the default settings for expensive apartments and bank lobbies, their mystic-visionary content reduced to homeopathic doses. Some die all at once with their founder or settle into a second act as businesses: silverware from the Oneida Perfectionists, hammocks from the Skinnerian behaviorist community Twin Oaks, or wind chimes from Arcosanti, which was once the be the germ of anthill arcologies honeycombing the planet.
Of all these ways to end, a handful of utopian projects -perhaps the most successful - evaporate in practice but produce a persistent icon of the future for a group or a subculture, a shared arrangement of visions, a magnetic field by which other people unknowingly set their compasses. Extropy was one of these.”
― Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
Of all these ways to end, a handful of utopian projects -perhaps the most successful - evaporate in practice but produce a persistent icon of the future for a group or a subculture, a shared arrangement of visions, a magnetic field by which other people unknowingly set their compasses. Extropy was one of these.”
― Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
![Elizabeth Bear](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1422586829i/108173._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.”
― Carnival
― Carnival
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