Quotes About Dystopia

Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ?

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Soylent Green" No matter how many times I see that movie, I still get a hankerin' for a Big Mac.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

Freedom is slavery," wrote George Orwell in his novel 1984.

Science fiction is full of stories about harvesting humans and clones for their parts.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.[130] (George Orwell, 1984)

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

I love the sci-fi movies where it's from the point of view of humans in that situation... When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else.