After the Death of Utopia

Back to Utopia?

This is the frontispiece of his book Utopia.

Suddenly, the library of utopia seemed within reach.

You know, we're marching toward Utopia.

The limits of technocratic utopianism have been reached.

Utopia was actually a word that Thomas Moore used deliberately.

Injustice is why there is an absence of Utopia.

And that is the problem with these Utopian ideas, that they are Utopian.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of Utopian ideals can be a burden, because you know that if everything were free, then the food stocks would become depleted and scarce and lead to chaos.

This is an interior design firm that is literally called Utopia.

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.

When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

Throughout human history people have tried to create utopia, the perfect society.

And here is another very famous Utopian vision, that of Ebenezer Howard, The Garden City.

The welcoming spirit of Liberty is a tribute to the gracious Christian example of your founder.

In this world without utopia, individual freedom is the supreme value.

The idea that Russia could produce a kind of new utopia was something that he was absolutely swept up by. He tried to create an art that would express that.

For nearly five decades he shared that walk with his good wife Macel . It's wonderful to see her today.

You need to describe the world is in new bliss, this is utopia with my idea adopted.

I sincerely want to believe that technology can bring us the techno utopia that we've been promised, but, you see,

While the word does not retain its original virtuous connotations, we still warm to the virtuosity of doing more with less.

The post 1945 ideal of a united Europe was very much a planner s archetype, a technocratic Utopia.

Well, at the moment, everyone's in such a state of hysteria that such talk as utopia terrifies them.

The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs and the city shall be in its midst.

And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

Nevertheless, I have nuclear plans that will revolutionize modern life and bring about a Utopia undreamed of!

To defend post utopian values in the longer term, politicians (and generals and spymasters) cannot seek security by drastically curtailing fundamental freedoms, because to do so risks forfeiting public support and a weakening of the pillars of the post utopian market order.

The result is a litany of post utopian values that include a stronger emphasis on individual freedom and personal responsibility.

But to dismiss them would be unwise, because their utopian aspirations are based on genuine and legitimate anxieties.

To all Uruguayans, friends, and our huge Latin American family, I want to pay my respects and remind you to keep on walking with eyes on the horizon, in our utopia. Hasta siempre Galeano!

We do not believe anyone in today apos s world searches for the Utopia described in Plato apos s Republic or Farabi apos s Ideal City.

The reference point here is Cornelia, the virtuous Roman matron, who scorned jewellery, and declared that her children were her greatest treasure.

Like my wish that no one went hungry or that everything were a free kind of utopia.

It is a fascinating story about the conflict between ideals and reality, or Utopia and humanness about being faithful to a cause and betraying it and about sacrifice and solidarity.

As for the anarchists, their utopia of widespread self management tied to outdated historical references appeared entirely unsuitable.

I have created the ministerial level National Secretariat for the Millennium Development Goals to ensure the full realization of these dreams and utopias of an unwavering State policy.

And I think you could argue that food is a fundamental ordering principle of Utopia, even though More never framed it that way.

like my wish that no one went hungry, or that everything were free, a kind of utopia.

The solemn Communist Manifesto announced the specter of the Great Utopia haunting Europe, but failed to warn us of the bloody tyranny.

King Shahdov brings to the States a vast fortune and his atomic plans in the hopes of revolutionizing modern life and bringing about a Utopia.

Indeed, there is a kind of virtuous circle at work the more successful the Court is in fulfilling its responsibilities, the more cases will be brought to it.

Stress the importance of publicly promoting shared values, tolerance, and co existence and urging the media to refrain from publishing material that calls for extremism and violence.