Quotes About Dystopia

I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.

If the choice on offer is between pasta primavera mix with freeze-dried chicken chunks and being among the first wave of deaths in the apocalypse, I hereby enthusiastically place my order for oblivion.

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world?

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world? How did we end up in an asylum?

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

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

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

Tak jak powtarzaj?cy si? g?ód w Korei Pó?nocnej powinien by? klasycznym przyk?adem tego, do czego zdolna jest dyktatura, kiedy chodzi jej wy??cznie o utrzymanie si? przy w?adzy, tak g?ód w Nigrze w 2005 roku móg?by pokazywa?, do czego zdolny jest rynek, kiedy nic nie kr?puje jego dzia?a?.

The streets were more empty than usual—everyone who had someone was probably at home, cuddling them up, waiting for the bombs to fall or the shooting to start or the diseases to spread or just for the chips in their heads to catch viruses, melt, and drip out of their brains.

In the Orwellian dystopia the original sin was thoughtcrime, but in our new corporate dystopia the secret inner crime is need, particularly financial need. People in America hide financial need like they hide sexual perversions.

within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.

Dystopia is just someone's failed attempt at utopia. In a dystopian novel or movie, society is the bad guy, or at least one of the antagonists. In real life Nazi society was as much to blame as Hitler. There is usually a "shift" that  initiates this change, this shift can be anything from hunger ("Soylent Green"), to a tornado (the "Wizard of Oz") to a deadly virus (my story, "Apocalypse Conspiracy).

Why does man insist on trying to make his Utopia in the midst of a battleground?

So that means about twelve billion people dead. And the remaining six billion ruled by a government that would even like to control their thoughts.

He wasn't sure which he hated most, the oppressive government of this world or the mindless, ever-breeding swarm it governed.

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a prison. In the second—the Huxleyan—culture becomes a burlesque. No

In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.