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  • Utopian movements produce dystopias. -- Dennis Prager
  • The future is always a dystopia in movies. -- Alex Cox
  • That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. -- Eugene Ionesco
  • It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. -- George Orwell
  • Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? -- Anthony Burgess
  • The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. -- Lois Lowry
  • Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions. -- Anthony Horowitz
  • In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. -- Daniel H. Wilson
  • The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. -- Ally Condie
  • 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. -- George Orwell
  • 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. -- Ally Condie
  • ...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come. -- Chuck Klosterman
  • Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia. -- Margaret Atwood
  • 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? -- George Orwell
  • 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. -- Margaret Atwood
  • 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. -- Charles Shaar Murray
  • 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. -- Edward Snowden
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