Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.
'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
I would love for the world to be happier.
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.