Dystopia Quotes

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

Tahereh Mafi

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

Yevgeny Zamyatin

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

Maria V. Snyder

If love dies, that's when we've all truly died.

Keary Taylor

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

George Orwell

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

Writing a novel is agony.

George Orwell

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

Stephen King

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

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.

George Orwell

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley