Dystopia Quotes
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![Anthony Burgess](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1484769559i/5735._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
![Philip K. Dick](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633698608i/4764._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
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![George Orwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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?”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
![George Orwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”
― 1984
― 1984
![George Orwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― 1984
― 1984
![Lois Lowry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1348162077i/2493._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
![Veronica Roth](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1702319133i/4039811._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
![Veronica Roth](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1702319133i/4039811._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”
― Divergent
― Divergent
![Margaret Atwood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282859073i/3472._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
![Rick Yancey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612972358i/3377941._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.”
― The 5th Wave
― The 5th Wave
![Margaret Atwood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282859073i/3472._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
![Neil Postman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193415026i/41963.jpg)
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .”
― The Running Man
― The Running Man
“I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience.
We have lost our humanity.”
― Shatter Me
We have lost our humanity.”
― Shatter Me
![Ayn Rand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1168729178i/432._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this!”
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![Paolo Bacigalupi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1375566282i/1226977._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives—their avatars—on the page. Not as issues to be addressed or as icons for social commentary, but simply as people who get to do cool things in amazing worlds. Yes, all the “issue” books are great and have a place in literature, but it's a different and wildly joyous gift to find yourself on the pages of an entertainment, experiencing the thrills and chills of a world more adventurous than our own.
And when you see that as a writer, you quickly realize that you don't want to be the jerk who says to a young reader, “Sorry, kid. You don't get to exist in story; you're too different.” You don't want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they could have a story written about them, too. That's the role of the bad guy in the dystopian stories, right? Given a choice, I'd rather be the storyteller who says every kid can have a chance to star.”
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And when you see that as a writer, you quickly realize that you don't want to be the jerk who says to a young reader, “Sorry, kid. You don't get to exist in story; you're too different.” You don't want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they could have a story written about them, too. That's the role of the bad guy in the dystopian stories, right? Given a choice, I'd rather be the storyteller who says every kid can have a chance to star.”
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“The world I remember was tired and racist and volatile as hell, ripe for a hostile takeover by a shit regime.
We were already divided.
The conquering was easy.”
― Restore Me
We were already divided.
The conquering was easy.”
― Restore Me
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.”
― Healology
― Healology
![Kameron Hurley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1616250384i/4369922._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath”
― The Stars Are Legion
― The Stars Are Legion
![Sheri S. Tepper](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1333062700i/20560._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to. I had the knife just for that reason. Yet, at the last minute I thought, he's some mother's son just as Hector was, and aren't we women all sisters? If I killed him, I thought, wouldn't It be like killing family?Wouldn't it be making some other mother grieve? So I didn't kill him, but if I had, I might have saved Hector's child. Dead or damned, that's the choice we make. Either you men kill us and are honored for it, or we women kill you and are damned for it. Dead or damned. Women don't have to make choices like that in Hades. There is no love there, nothing to betray.”
― The Gate to Women's Country
― The Gate to Women's Country
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