Utopia Quotes

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. Nadine Gordimer

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Utopia’s quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England – with improvements,
William Schwenck Gilbert

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller

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. Oscar Wilde