“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
”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