Quotes About Dystopia

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

She remembered the promise of an antiseptic future: domed cities and artificial weather. Somehow this was supposed to be good. Anna O. knew that hers was the last generation to believe the future would be better.

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

no one sees, no one hears cries of despair not very dreamlike; a sense that we're all robots controlled by psychotic state of mind these days. Orwell wasn't far off, just a few years.

The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists.

As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)

Save the world? I don't think so. I have my reasons. The world was lost a long time ago, and nothing's going to fix it, maybe not even science.

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Blake's Seven.

The apocalyptic dystopias dreamed up by anti-urbanists were peopled by seething masses welded into the terrible organism of the mob, which is also a standard-issue subject of expressionism.

Cómo diablos construir ese paraíso, si la vileza humana mata en embrión cualquier utopía?

Will Huxley's Brave New World come true one day in all its improbability and chilling inhumanity?

We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.

mieux vaut vivre libre dans un monde ravagé qu'être un esclave dans une utopie pacifiée.

Better to live free in a ravaged world than to be a slave in a peaceful utopia.

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

You know, if you look at a lot of the hit games from America, they are about end of the world scenarios.

I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

I'm a huge fan of dystopian films. I collect them in my brain.

Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

Dried-up carcasses of animals and humans alike—for to mechs they were alike