Dystopia Quotes

Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that ...

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that...

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more tro...

But to what end? Some... future revolution? It can never succeed.As Seneca warned Nero: No matter ho...

Writing a novel is agony.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are...

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are...

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possession...

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too h...

Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant sto...

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and ...

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have ...

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part ...

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

New York City is finished," he said. "They can't keep order there, and you can't have business witho...

Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future ...

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beg...

Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be tru...

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not ...

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...

Two-thirty comes during Testifying. It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen an...

I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did it, all at once, without anyone know...

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing….I’m a cloud, conge...

I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we tu...

And Mother does not hate her; actually, she fears Damaya. Is there a difference? Maybe.

...she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to clo...

The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by...

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it...

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would b...

(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to...

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. ...

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most...

I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''...

Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over...

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

Who did the council fight?""It split in two and fought itself.""That's suicide!""No, ordinary behavi...

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

There was something called Christianity.

He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of...

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no l...