Quotes About A Dystopian Society

#1. At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.

George Takei

#2. New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

Tad Williams

#4. We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

Max Burns

#5. If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

Jennifer Wilson

#6. Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

Oswald Spengler

#7. Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Lauren DeStefano

#8. You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.

Ambelin Kwaymullina

#9. I always enjoy the battle sequences. It's like going to the playground.

Drew Roy

#10. I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.

Eugie Foster

#11. Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells.

Aldous Huxley

#12. Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

Abraham Maslow

#13. I fell silent after that. I didn't want to talk about such things anymore, at least today. My chest already hurt and I was trying to keep my mind calm. I didn't want to think of a future so bleak and dark. I had plans for my future and they didn't involve the world ending or society collapsing.

J.M. Northup

#14. We go into the red next year ... I shall have to give up polo.

Prince Philip

#15. Some things in this world just ain't mean to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

James McBride

#16. You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Charles Stewart Parnell

#17. For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster.

Sarah Hall

#18. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire

#19. I can't - won't do that to him," Summer says sharply. "Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren't real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can't trust that any of this is real.

Laura Kreitzer

#20. But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

Amy Engel

#21. To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

David Whyte

#22. When I walk through a forest I feel tremendous: tree-mend-us!

S.J. Cameron

#23. I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.

James Heckman

#24. Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.

Laura Kreitzer