Quotes About Dystopia

we will end up with downgraded humans misusing upgraded computers to wreak havoc on themselves and on the world.

an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

Wreath told me what the Passage is." "Oh?" "They're going to kill three billion people to stop the other three billion from ever dying.

But I was not a domesticated animal. The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring the stars, the omnipresent gasoline fumes, the thousand ways it presaged our destruction... none of these things appealed to me.

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I loved Zack Snyder's 'Dawn of the Dead' and '28 Days Later' and '28 Weeks Later.' I would love to be involved with a film that shows the breakdown of society and a small group of survivors in a world that has crumbled. That's something I would like to explore.

Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

As George Orwell wrote in his book 1984, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell lo escribió en su libro 1984: "En un tiempo de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

What's a Laster? A dead man.

It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself.

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

Roschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985 Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout Save us!... and I'll look down and whisper No.

The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.

Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout save us!... ...and I'll look down and whisper no.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

All three negative utopias make it appear that it is possible to dehumanize man completely, and yet for life to go on.

For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth." "If I were the last man on earth it'd be because you drove the other poor suckers to early graves.