Editing Utopia (section)

==Definitions and interpretations==
Famous quotes from writers and characters about utopia:
* "There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow." —[[Victor Hugo]]
* "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. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias." —[[Oscar Wilde]]
* "Utopias are often only premature truths." —[[Alphonse de Lamartine]]
* "None of the [[abstraction|abstract]] concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace." —[[Theodor W. Adorno]]
* "I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship." —[[Pedro Almodovar]]
* "In ourselves alone the absolute light keeps shining, a sigillum falsi et sui, mortis et vitae aeternae [false signal and signal of eternal life and death itself], and the fantastic move to it begins: to the external interpretation of the daydream, the cosmic manipulation of a concept that is utopian in principle." —[[Ernst Bloch]]
* "When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build." —[[Henry Kuttner]]
* "A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that if these [United] States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have frequent and violent contests with each other." —[[Alexander Hamilton]], ''Federalist'' No. 6.
*"We are all utopians, so soon as we wish for something different." – [[Henri Lefebvre]]<ref>LEFEBVRE, Henri (2000 [1968]) Everyday Life in the Modern World. Translated by Sacha Rabinovitch. London: The Athlone Press, p.75.</ref>
*"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." –[[Emma Goldman]]<ref>Emma Goldman, “[https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman%20-socialism-caught-in-the-political-trap Socialism Caught in the Political Trap] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525073427/https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-socialism-caught-in-the-political-trap |date=2024-05-25 }},” in Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader, ed. Alix Kates Shulman, freely available at the Anarchist Library.</ref>

[[Utopian socialism|Utopian socialist]] [[Étienne Cabet]] in his utopian book ''[[The Voyage to Icaria]]'' cited the definition from the contemporary ''Dictionary of ethical and political sciences'':
{{blockquote|Utopias and other models of government, based on the public good, may be inconceivable because of the disordered human passions which, under the wrong governments, seek to highlight the poorly conceived or selfish interest of the community. But even though we find it impossible, they are ridiculous to sinful people whose sense of self-destruction prevents them from believing.}}

[[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895|Engels]] used the word "utopia" to denote unscientific social theories.<ref>Frederick Engels. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.</ref>

Philosopher [[Slavoj Žižek]] told about utopia:

{{blockquote|Which means that we should reinvent utopia but in what sense. There are two false meanings of utopia one is this old notion of imagining this ideal society we know will never be realized, the other is the capitalist utopia in the sense of new perverse desire that you are not only allowed but even solicited to realize. The true utopia is when the situation is so without issue, without the way to resolve it within the coordinates of the possible that out of the pure urge of survival you have to invent a new space. Utopia is not kind of a free [[imagination]] utopia is a matter of inner most urgency, you are forced to imagine it, it is the only way out, and this is what we need today.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://maquinasdefuego.blogspot.com/2011/08/slavoj-zizek-on-utopia.html|title=Slavoj Žižek on Utopia|access-date=2019-08-21|archive-date=2019-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821123356/http://maquinasdefuego.blogspot.com/2011/08/slavoj-zizek-on-utopia.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

Philosopher [[Milan Šimečka]] said:

{{blockquote|...utopism was a common type of thinking at the dawn of human [[civilization]]. We find utopian beliefs in the oldest religious imaginations, appear regularly in the neighborhood of ancient, yet pre-philosophical views on the causes and meaning of natural events, the purpose of creation, the path of good and evil, happiness and misfortune, fairy tales and legends later inspired by poetry and philosophy ... the underlying motives on which utopian literature is built are as old as the entire historical epoch of human history.<ref>ŠIMEČKA, M. (1963): Sociálne utópie a utopisti, Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Osveta.</ref>}}

Philosopher [[Richard Stahel]] said:

{{blockquote|...every [[social organization]] relies on something that is not realized or feasible, but has the ideal that is somewhere beyond the horizon, a [[lighthouse]] to which it may seek to approach if it considers that ideal socially valid and generally accepted.<ref>SŤAHEL, R. In: MICHALKOVÁ, R.: Symposion: Utópie. Bratislava: RTVS. 2017.</ref>}}