Quotes About Dystopia

La misión de CRUEL es servir y preservar a la humanidad, a cualquier precio. Somos, efectivamente, "buenos".

What's actually wrong with that Ben guy? He doesn't even look human anymore.

Jensen dwelled on thoughts of what the future would bring and he didn't like what he saw there.

We all of us seem to have this belief that things are going to get better. Why should they? Sometimes I think we're moving into a new ice age of tyranny and terror, why not? Who's to stop it—us?

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.

A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in dark and pessimistic settings.

Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Broad dissemination and individual choice turn most technologies into a plus. If only the elites have access, it's a dystopia.

The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall.

If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for watching Channel 2 instead of Channel 3, like characters in a broad dystopian satire.

Once a utopia in the eyes of many, San Francisco became the nerve center of a new dystopia.

There shall be no more gods; there shall be no more quiet and holy places of the earth; and the sea shall be filled with our dirty works. Your women shall breed like sows, and you shall work like robots. You shall value nothing for its own sake, but only for its market value. As for living, the machines will do that for you. In the morning you shall say, Would God it evening; and in the evening, Would God it were morning.

Richard K. Morgan

We sit here, three silhouettes carved from electronic sleet in the difference storm, and you talk like a cheap period drama. Limited vision, lieutenant, limited vision. Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels.

How easy it was to be a Communist when you weren't living under Communism!

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.