Quotes About Dystopia

A gramme is better than a damn.

He believed the best use of human beings was as compost or incubators.

Nightmarish Future "B

How are you making utopia sound like Hell on Earth?

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and riding smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, it feels eerily prescient in 2020.

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

What makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' so terrifying is that everything that happens in it is plausible.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

When did the news become worse than any dystopian fiction we could imagine?

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.

Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.

Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit.

The Gasmask Man

Folks woke up today to a poisoned world, and some of them won't see any reason to hold back on doing the awful things they've always dreamed of.

Jarod Lanier - a veteran Silicon Valley engineer - told me he used to be a consultant for loads of dystopian Hollywood movies, like Minority Report, but he had to stop because he kept designing ever-more frightening technologies to warn people of what was coming - and designers kept responding by saying that's so cool; how do we make that?

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.