“Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Democratic man, dreaming eternally of Utopias, is ever a prey to shibboleths.”
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
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Leonard H. Courtney (1832–1918) British politician
Context: : These have often been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but also to Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, and many others; Lord Denning in The Road to Justice (1988) states that the phrase originated in a statement of Irish orator John Philpot Curran in 1790: "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
Song lyrics, Space Oddity (1969)
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
The Story of Utopias, Chapter One http://books.google.com/books?id=846mSPr_kaUC&q=%22It+is+our+utopias+that+make+the+world+tolerable+to+us+the+cities+and+mansions+that+people+dream+of+are+those+in+which+they+finally+live%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage (1922).
“I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
ASCA (25 January 2002)
2002
“Among the beasts of prey, man is certainly the worst.”
Johann Most (1846–1906) German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator
This expression, very commonly made nowadays, is only relatively true. Not man as such, but man in connection with wealth is a beast of prey. The richer a man, the greater his greed for more. We may call such a monster the "beast of property". It now rules the world, makes mankind miserable, and gains in cruelty and voracity with the progress of our so-called "civilization".
The Beast of Property (1884)
“In the eternal dream, eternity is the same as an instant. Maybe I will come back in an instant.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
Voces (1943)