Quotes About Dystopia

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

I thought, because of 'The 100' and 'Apocalypse,' that I knew everything about what life after an apocalypse would be - but Ryan Murphy and the writers of 'American Horror Story' have shown a whole other side of an apocalypse.

Ako pomislim što je pakao - to je kad si sam zauvijek u sobi 101 i nemaš što ?itati osim njegovih (Orwellovih) knjiga.

It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.

Zombie flesh isn't so bad.

Is this what happens to utopias from the Freek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?

Is this what happens to utopias from the Greek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?

He wanted to improve the world, while I did not believe and never have believed that we can improve the world, just merely survive as it slides into chaos.

When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

force me to have a baby against my will. That's . . . It's barbaric. It's like . . . Handmaid shit.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

They take the circuits out of people's brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I'm sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don't have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.

I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

I think the idea of a distant, far off dystopia, where the world is completely different from what we have now, is good, but it's been done. Especially in YA movies.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

There are many people, including myself, who are quite queasy about the consequences of this technology for the future. —K. Eric Drexler, 1992

No one lives in Ameeron by choice.' 'A veritable City of the Damned.' 'As the poet might remark, aye.' Rackhir offered Elric a sardonic wink. 'But I sometimes think all cities are that.'