Top 36 Social Science Fiction Quotes
#1. The role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.
George W. Bush
#2. Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.
Paul Di Filippo
#4. When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
#5. Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous
Bette A. Stevens
#6. The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.
Geoff Mulgan
#7. This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.
Leot Felton
#8. What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.
Doris Lessing
#9. The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Larry Niven
#10. I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christmas miracle.
Alexa Riley
#11. Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best", but in reality as we know best things are scarse.. Let me remind you again, that for the Reds, "best" things are these things that they consider "the best" for us, not these that we like!!
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#12. Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.
Peter Frase
#13. The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.
Jack Higgins
#15. Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
Douglas Adams
#16. The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion
Donna J. Haraway
#17. Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book. Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.
Sharon L. Reddy
#18. The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.
Bert Hellinger
#19. [Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.
Kingsley Amis
#20. What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
Humberto Contreras
#21. A man goes into Boots and says: "Have you got any Viagra?" "Do you have a prescription?" asks the chemist. "No," he replies, "But 'I've got a photograph of the wife."
Frank Carson
#22. The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.
Austin Kleon
#23. A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet.
E.J. Koh
#24. In Britain, everything is policed except crime.
Mark Steyn
#25. For many miles on either side of the river's oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads.
Edgar Allan Poe
#26. Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction. I
Warren Ellis
#27. Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
#30. [Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.
Isaac Asimov
#31. A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.
Ray Bradbury
#32. Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.
George Takei
#33. I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
Jean Craighead George
#34. Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile.
Spider Robinson
#35. All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ...
Vijay Seshadri
#36. Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.
Dave Eggers
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