Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
Interpretation
Utopia represents an unreachable ideal that motivates us to keep moving forward.
This quote by Eduardo Galeano reflects the idea that utopia, or an ideal state of existence, is always out of reach. The relentless pursuit of these ideals drives human advancement and growth, suggesting that the journey towards improvement is more valuable than actually attaining perfection. Utopia serves as a guiding beacon, inspiring us to push our limits and strive for a better future, even if we never actually arrive at that ideal destination.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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