Dystopia/Quotes

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science.

—Nineteen Eighty-Four

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

—Nineteen Eighty-Four

A future so chaotic and grim, you won't want to live long enough to get there.

—Trauma 2020 tagline

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

—Yogi Bera

In a discussion of 1984, Bradbury pointed out that the world George Orwell described has little likelihood of coming about — largely because Orwell described it. “The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future,” Bradbury said, “but to prevent it.”

—(per Theodore Sturgeon)

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