Idealistic Society Quotes

What I didn't want to come in with is 'Camelot' in all its pomp and glory. Instead we're looking at how you build a society, how you build a world that people believe in, and how hard it is.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

I am a Utopian. What else would I be? I am living in America.