utopias QUOTES

1 " All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in., March 9, 1998] "

2 " O’Brien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?

Winston: By making him suffer.

O’Brien: Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. "

― George Orwell

3 " There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything. "

4 " We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. "

― Will Durant

5 " All utopias are dystopias. The term " dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a " utopia" can be functional. "

6 " All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow "

7 " One of the most inefficient utopias I have ever seen was that of a humble Zapatista village in the mountains of Southeastern Mexico. I kid you not, the entire village sits down and takes days to make a single decision! Everyone gets a chance to hear and be heard, and some questions take eons of time, but everyone is patient and respectful. Things actually get done. It's as if time was suddenly transformed from the tickling of a Newtonian clock to something that revolved around ordinary folks. "

― , Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

8 " Pioneers did not produce original works of art because they were creating original human environments they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them. "

9 " The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. "