Veronica Roth

Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.

American Author

Trevor Noah

Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to many live comedy performances going on in any city I'm in, and each of us is trying to be the best at what we do. I don't think of it as a competition so much as a thriving comedy economy.

South African Comedian

Robert Nozick

Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.

American Philosopher

George E. Brown, Jr.

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

American Politician

Robert J. Sawyer

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

Canadian Writer

Nicolas Winding Refn

We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level, is quite amusingly silly but also on another probably very important.

Danish Director

Werner Herzog

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

German Director

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

French Photographer

Henry Rollins

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

American Musician

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

South Korean Leader

Utopian goals can seem impossible since perfection is hard to achieve.

Often Unattainable

Utopian suggests hope for a better future; it's usually positive.

Positive Connotation

Some may view utopian ideas as naive. It can be a subtly critical term.

Criticism Possible

Utopians believe in the possibility of a much better world.

Optimistic Belief

Utopians are often visionaries, imagining radical alternatives to current realities.

Visionary Thinkers

Utopians don't just dream; they take action toward their ideals.

Beyond Idealism

 And I don't think that this is utopian. I really think that this is all based on the idea that if we let people tap into their potential by mastering concepts, by being able to exercise agency over their learning, that they can get there. And when you think of it as just a citizen of the world, it's pretty exciting.

Let's teach for mastery...

 and people seemed to be turning to me to articulate their viewpoints, and honestly, it was sort of overwhelming. You see, the internet has this interesting quality. In one way, it totally brought the world together, and I remember being a kid and all of this utopian propaganda was being dumped on us

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 to mitigate such a scenario. While something like air from the future is very effective and tangible, the trajectory from our present to a future consequence is not always so linear. Even when a technology is developed with utopian ideals, the moment it leaves the laboratory and enters the world,

Why we need to imagine...

 Though the name suggested impossibility, modern scientific and political progress raised hopes of these dreams finally becoming reality. But time and time again, they instead turned into nightmares of war, famine, and oppression. And as artists began to question utopian thinking,

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 meaning it theorizes about possible futures. This is a fundamental characteristic shared by both utopian and dystopian texts. The possible futures in Atwood's novels are usually negative, or dystopian, where the actions of a small group have destroyed society as we know it.

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 cityscapes in landscapes and realizing them in creating them imbued with utopian or dystopian ideals depending on whatever the conceptual framework is so that said this is the gap map and in the project it's actually a project narrative it's actually owned by gap but

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 archetypal utopian landscape that it's as old as myth and it's ephemeral as a dream we seem to have this incredible yearning for places that don't exist of course looking into this incredible place and climbing into this landscape is a transcendent experience for me

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 is that when people start predicting what the post-pandemic world is going to be, I notice that their predictions seem to be, suspiciously, in exact alignment with their personal worldview. So my friends who are utopians are already living in this utopian future

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 and throw it down, and maybe some chapstick, whatever. I used to want to design a utopian society or a perfect world or something like that. But as I'm kind of getting older and kind of messing with all this stuff, I'm realizing that my idea of a perfect world

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 you would have said that that's impossible. There's simply no economic model that that would be possible. And if I told you it was all coming for free, you would say, this is simply -- you're dreaming. You're a Californian utopian. You're a wild-eyed optimist.