Three Early Modern Utopias Quotes

“The utopian solution to the problems of reality, according to Davis, is to idealize neither man nor nature, but organization: the utopianist devises bureaucratic and institutional systems in order to contain desire and transgression, and thus to apportion a limited supply of material satisfactions.5”
― Thomas More, Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines

“What part soever you have taken upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.”
― Thomas More, Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines

“It is with great cunning that we assume the name of the world”
― Sir Francis Bacon, THREE UTOPIAS. UTOPIA (Thomas More); THE NEW ATLANTIS (Francis Bacon); THE ISLE OF PINES (Henry Neville)