“The first stones of the new world, however coarse or unpolished they may be, are more beautiful than the sunset of a world in agony, and its swan songs†– Antonio Gramsci
â€The word, the word is a great thing.†– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Not only is utopia not ‘realizable’, but it could not be realized without destroying itself.†– Louis Marin
“We have thought too much in terms of a will which submits and not enough in terms of an imagination which opens up†– Paul Ricoeur
“In the dream in which every epoch sees in images the epoch which is to succeed it, the latter appears coupled with elements of prehistory – that is to say a classless society. The experiences of this society, which have their store-place in the collective unconsciousness, interact with the new to give birth to a thousand configurations of life, from permanent buildings to ephemeral fashions†– Walter Benjamin
“What can oppose the decline of the West is not a resurrected culture but the utopia silently contained in the image of its decline.†– T.W. Adorno