Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

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

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

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?

'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

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

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.

With 'Utopia,' definitely it's more the idea of trying to put across a message rather than just entertaining the audience. It's entertaining as well, but there's also a lot of other things that are going on.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

Let's build Paradise again.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.