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• Although images of perfection in people`s personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of e... Dennis Prager
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• The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither a... Susan Sontag
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• At my utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one corner there would be a boxing ring. Students... Werner Herzog
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• All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive. And once any system succeeds, it becomes its own worst enemy. The good things we create soon create bad things. So nothing is ever going to be Utopian, and when I ... Robert Altman
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• Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. Very few people seek these images today. Werner Herzog
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• We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. Alois Hadamczik
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• Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. Michael Novak
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• I can`t think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian. Allen Merritt
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• Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. Henry Flynt
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• Although images of perfection in people`s personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in t... Dennis Prager
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