He is wary of abstractions, and all notions of utopia; utopian visions (secular or religious) usually fill the graveyards and the gulags.
Indeed, all the major visions of utopia place far greater importance on more mundane matters, such as the nature of work and leisure, and the structure of local communities, than they do on the grand questions of governance.
Despite his own personal rejection of utopianism, Lenin, high on his pedestal addressing workers in October 1917, came to be the embodiment of all three forms of utopia.
All past ideas of utopia were unrealistic, because it was assumed that Malthus was right and there would never be enough physical resources for more than a tiny proportion of humanity to live in comfort.
It is a wake-up call to the imagination -- a demand to recognize the silent promise of utopia all around us.
They were also the last time that a certain kind of grand, bold political hope existed in her family — the last time before events combined to extinguish all thoughts, among Kleins, of utopia.
"The Coast of Utopia" took all three categories on the play side, as had been predicted, given the scale of the project.
It is time we challenged the Islamists who tell us that a properly implemented Sharia system or a caliphate will bring about a state of utopia for all of us.
Rapture is a beautiful underwater city, all art deco flourishes and bold dreams of utopia.
Feng Sun Chen writes poems that occupy the no-place of utopia; they unfold nowhere and everywhere all at once.
