The opposite of utopians are realists, pragmatists, and cynics. While utopians strive for a perfect world, realists believe in accepting and dealing with reality as it is. Pragmatists base their actions on practical considerations rather than ideals or principles. Cynics believe that human beings are selfish and inherently flawed, and that the pursuit of a perfect society is futile. Unlike utopians who envision a world without any problems or conflicts, realists, pragmatists, and cynics acknowledge the imperfections of society and focus on finding reasonable solutions to current problems. These contrasting views can lead to fruitful debates and discussions over the best course of action to be taken to improve society.

What are the antonyms for Utopians?

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  • idealist
  • pragmatist
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Famous quotes with Utopians

• What the earliest utopians — Montaigne, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella — understood was that they fought not for a place but for a new set of ideas through which to recognize what would count as Real: Equality, not hierarchical authority. Individual dignity, not slavish subservience.We need to work inventively — as Christ did, as Thoreau did — in the spirit of disobedience for the purpose of refusing the social order into which we happen to have been born and putting in its place a culture of life-giving things.

  Michel de Montaigne
• Over the years and against conventional wisdom, utopians sustained a vision of life beyond the market. … Georg Lukács set forth a theory of the “old and new culture” in which he argued that the socialist economy was not the goal; it was simply a precondition for humanity to advance to a new and humane culture. Most radicals do not understand that political power and economic reorganization is not the end-all, stated Lukács. The goal is not a new economic order, but freedom from an obsession with economics.

  Russell Jacoby

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