Browsing Topic Best Dystopia Quotes

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

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

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it’s a new thing, and it’s a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It’s about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence – that’s a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.

In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it’s hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

That’s how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The people at the NSA aren’t trying to ruin your life. They’re not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.

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