Perfect Society Quotes:

I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Mean, Perfect, Earth, Perfect Society

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Family, Children, Home, Perfect Society

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

- Isabel Allende

topic: Perfect, Imagination, Society, Perfect Society

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 the twentieth century.

- Dennis Prager

topic: Perfect, People, Evil, Perfect Society, Utopian

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

- Gottfried Leibniz

topic: Happiness, Perfect, Purpose, Perfect Society

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

topic: Character, Perfect, Source, Mutual Trust, Perfect Society

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

- Anne Frasier

source: Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.382, Theresa Weir

topic: Lying, Believe, Order, Perfect Society

Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

- George Orwell

topic: Men, Thinking, Perfection, Perfect Society, Toothache

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

- Alexander Skarsgard

topic: Class, People, Safety, Free Education, Perfect Society

We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, risk will be no more.

- Philip K. Howard

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Perfect, Perfect Society

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.303, Vintage

topic: Children, Men, Perfect, Justice And Injustice, Perfect Society

Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.

- Christine Jennings

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Fun, Book, Writing, Perfect Society

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

topic: Children, Luxury, Perfect, Perfect Society, Adornment

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.

- Catherine Helen Spence

source: Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Love, Land, Australia, South Australia, Perfect Society