Top 100 Quotes About Dystopia
#1. I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
Marie Brennan
#2. All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
Joel Sternfeld
#3. a world where chocolate is entirely rare - or entirely mediocre - is a dystopia the likes of which we can scarcely conceive ["An Emotional History Of Chocolate," The Millions, January 5, 2015].
Elizabeth Winkler
#4. 'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.
Richard Corliss
#5. Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
Anthony Horowitz
#7. dystopia, a reliably clean, well-lighted place.
Kate Atkinson
#8. Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
Richard Corliss
#10. CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
Heather Brooke
#11. The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
Ally Condie
#12. You don't have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you're strong and noble enough to accept it.
A.J. Darkholme
#13. We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.
Elan Mastai
#15. I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
Chuck Klosterman
#16. The future is always a dystopia in movies.
Alex Cox
#17. When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
Ally Condie
#19. Every eutopia contains a dystopia, every dystopia contains a eutopia. In
Thomas More
#20. All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.
A.E. Samaan
#21. Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
Margaret Atwood
#22. In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Daniel H. Wilson
#23. At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.
Erich Fromm
#24. Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
A.E. Samaan
#25. His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. He has no such obligation.
M.K. Sutherland
#26. Ideas combined with courage can change the world.
David Litwack
#27. The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
Usman W. Chohan
#29. There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.
Philip K. Dick
#31. That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
Eugene Ionesco
#32. Mai whispers, "Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe."
"You of all people," Nicholas says, "should know that freedom is more important than being safe.
E.J. Squires
#33. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
George Orwell
#34. I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, couldn't itself be told.
John Crowley
#36. His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn't read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn't intend to tell me anything either.
J.A. Rogers
#37. He thought of the Finishing School for Barbies where long-legged, high-breasted, stomachless girls went to get shaved clean, get their toenails painted pink, their nipples removed, and all body opening sewn shut, except for their mouths, which curved in perpetual smiles and led nowhere.
Kate Wilhelm
#38. I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.
Georgia Clark
#39. The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.
Scott A. Butler
#40. I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline bangs through my system. I shove Abel behind me and whip my knife from where I'd hidden it in my boot. Who the hell are you?
Georgia Clark
#41. Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.
Leigh M. Lane
#42. This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.
Leot Felton
#43. Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.
David Marusek
#44. Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse.
Shelly Crane
#45. I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.
Georgia Clark
#46. Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there's only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.
Georgia Clark
#48. He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.
Sharon Sant
#49. Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
Jacques Ellul
#50. Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.
Aldous Huxley
#51. This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira
S.L. Wallace
#52. Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.
Lauren DeStefano
#53. He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.
Kurt Vonnegut
#54. Her life was not yet over, she decided. It just felt this way.
Hugh Howey
#55. Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
Tahereh Mafi
#56. The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.
Suki Michelle
#57. I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.'
'You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?
Veronica Roth
#58. I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself.
S.L. Wallace
#59. We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.
I think we're fucked.
Stephen Emmott
#60. If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.
Maria V. Snyder
#61. I'm sorry if humans mistreated your people in the past, but if we don't join together now, it's time to admit that we're all just keeping busy while we wait for the Earth to die.
Andy Goldman
#63. ... our world did not fall because we did not believe in fairness ... our world fell because it could no longer support the enormous weight we had put upon it, in the name of fairness.
Leot Felton
#64. Oh, so it's not enough that I told you; it has to be in the right setting?" I raise my eyebrows. "Next time should I brew some tea and make sure the lighting is right too?
Veronica Roth
#65. You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.
S.L. Wallace
#66. For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.
Nicole Sobon
#67. Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.
F.D. Lee
#68. Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City.
But what if the ones who set the rules are the ones lying to you?
What if the ones who reprimand the rule-breakers are lying to you?
Who do you believe when there is nobody left to believe?
Lisa Alfonso
#69. For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.
George Orwell
#70. What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
Ira Levin
#71. THE ELITES AND THE LESSERS, ONE LOOKS DOWN UPON THE OTHER.
IF YOU'RE A ROAMER, YOU'RE NO LONGER PART OF THE ELITES.
BECOMING A NEW-LESSER MAY SAVE YOU. IF ONLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
THREE ISLANDS TWO COLLIDE THE THIRD IS A MYSTERY.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#72. The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.
Siobhan Davis
#73. If you listen closely you will hear the spirits sigh
a lesson lost on humans; an enchanting lullaby:
Mercy lies in nature's hands and bound to it we grow.
Of the earth we came to be and of the earth we'll go.
Nicoline Evans
#74. Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
Anthony Burgess
#75. Because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning ...
Tamara Rose Blodgett
#76. The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.
John Crowley
#77. And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
Ally Condie
#78. Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.
Erica Lindquist
#79. The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
Iain Banks
#80. Nothing exists except through human consciousness
George Orwell
#81. In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives ...
Stephen King
#83. I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I'm only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it's difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My ratings plummet, but at least my air-time is minimal now, I'm not offering much in the way of entertainment these days.
Siobhan Davis
#84. Because King Silas
always gets what he wants, even if he doesn't want
anything more than to fuck with you.
Quil Carter
#85. So many likes and retweets for having the "GUTS"
to say what every-
one thinks
ON
THE
FUCKING
INTER-
NET
(but never in the street).
Andy Carrington
#86. There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.
Nadege Richards
#87. I think it means that everyone is necessary. As long as a person finds some way to contribute to society, it doesn't matter which task he chooses. We're all important.
S.L. Wallace
#88. Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.
Norman O. Brown
#89. I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.
Siobhan Davis
#90. It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.
Hugh Howey
#92. They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
#93. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.
Margaret Atwood
#94. It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.
Sharon Sant
#95. I'm a wanted fugitive, and you're an upstanding bachelor of the year!
S.L. Wallace
#96. Her demon had pursued and seduced him. She hoped he hadn't placed too much importance on that.
Paula Altenburg
#97. I didn't really comprehend what was happening or how tonight had changed us and the course of our future, but I instinctively knew that things would never be the same again. Something had ended and something was definitely beginning, I just didn't have the knowledge base to know what.
J.M. Northup
#98. In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.
J.G. Ballard
#100. Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
Cecelia Ahern
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