Quotes About Dystopia

Another person wearing a hood—a probe shield.

Pero no puedo usar el videófono -protestó Isidore, angustiado-. Porque soy feo, encorvado, peludo, ceniciento y de dientes separados. Y además, me siento mal a causa de la radiación. Creo que me voy a morir.

Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.

Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines.

Civilwarland in Bad Decline

We always thought the robot apocalypse would be fleets of killer drones and war mecha the size of apartment blocks and terminators with red eyes. Not a row of mechanised checkouts

There are those who want things made worse, not better, so that they can scavenge on the remnants. Remember what you know already: the human world is filled with predators.

Hunger Games.

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The program Hitler outlined rejected everything: it was anticapitalistic and antiproletarian, revolutionary and restorational; it conjured up its dire visions of the future along with nostalgic pictures of the good old days.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

What a repugnant spectacle our country has become! Falsehood, cruelty, and madness everywhere, and brute force in the wings waiting to finish us off.

those people live in a dystopian fantasy where they're the heroes in a world full of threats.

Nothing I could say or do would help her. Life is hard in a world gone wrong.

Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

Arinwald's favorite film has become the version of 1984 starring John Hurt and Richard Burton; the moment that most satisfies in that production is when Burton says to Hurt, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.

to preserve freedom and stave off a cruel totalitarian future, respect for truth must be restored.

utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

It seemed that the political elites were striving, with admiration for George Orwell and rare unanimity, to ensure that the totalitarian state in the novel 1984 would be realized no later than fifty years after the author predicted.

Those brain-zapped kids weren't the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

Computers will be the death of us all.