Quotes About Dystopia

it is no longer possible to be both human and alive)

Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we're in trouble.

Bearing false witness was not the exception, it was common. Beneath its outer show of virtue and purity, Gilead was rotting.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

Hi guys the book Im reading right this moment is called Uglies

All of the might of one side is mustered to defend and avenge the innocents; all of the cunning of the other is dedicated to slashing, again and again, at the world's greatest power by attacking the innocent. Utopia versus Dystopia.

And in the end, unable to feel terror, mankind will go, we will all go down, down, down to happyland.

In the foreword of Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death, he compares the apocalyptic visions of George Orwell (1984) to those of Aldous Huxley (Brave New World). One of the comparisons speaks to the issue at hand: "In 1984 . . . people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

I don't know how you can walk around in a utility fog that could start disassembling your body anything your Governors decide they're done with you.

Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.

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.

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

the true subject of science fiction is death, not life. It will all end. The totality of it.

I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Dystopia is a very interesting setting. Whether it's '1984' or 'Fahrenheit 451'... Dystopia is a wonderfully cinematic setting.

Apocalyptic movies tend to thrive when people are concerned about the state of the world.

Bellona used to be a pretty good town.

Alas, this isn't Utopia or even Minneapolis.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.