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~ An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. ~ ~ For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. ~ ~ Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. ~ ~ Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. ~ ~ Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. ~ ~ One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. ~ ~ There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. ~ ~ Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. ~ ~ Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average ~ ~ Literature is my utopia. ~ |
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