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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
But man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of Nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them—that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
A Modern Utopia (1905)
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being. Being, indeed! – there is no being, but a universal becoming of individualities, and Plato turned his back os truth when he turned towards his museum of specific ideals.
A Modern Utopia (1905)