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“I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the importance of the sentimental. Maybe it says, "We need love in this world," but it's always this tough, strong statement.”

Thinking World Giving Literature Strong Tough Importance Sentimental Dystopian Need Love

Author:How to Dress Well

“I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.”

Thinking Mystery Dystopian

Author:Miles Aldridge

“How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over the head with rocks and sticks. A primitive fury has been unleashed by a president who has no culture, who cannot read, and who wants to determine power and aggression.”

Thinking World Trying Culture President Determine Primitive Aggression Dystopian Fury Utopian

Author:Carolee Schneemann

“Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk about Palestine, it is never in the present, but either remembering a past or imagining a better future. Submitting gritty Middle Eastern politics to high production sci-fi in this manner not only underlines the absurdity of the situation, but brings about a dystopian future scenario.”

Past Remember Situation Science Fiction Nostalgia Absurdity Eastern Palestine Dystopian

Author:Larissa Sansour

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.”

Heart Rooms Eternity Fixed Dystopian Crystals Julia

Book:1984

Source: 1984

“I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.”

Fiction Fantasy Female Historical Memoir Sci Fi Nonfiction Dystopian Lit Chicks Protagonists Female Protagonists

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.”

Ifs Trying Dystopian Back In Time Live Every Day

Author:Charlie Jane Anders

“I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines.”

Wells Self Dream Jobs Taken Mankind Machines Plenty Acknowledge Sci Fi Conspiracy American Dream Robots Dystopian Scenarios Theorists

Book:American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

“Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.”

Ideas Government Fantasy Building Cameras Agree Privacy Shopping Dystopian Surveillance Stadiums Subway Malls Unthinkable Anonymity Sept 11 Surveillance Cameras Biometrics

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.”

Children Responsibility Liberty Industry Machines Contempt Taking Responsibility Dystopian Surveillance Civil Liberties Own Business Copyright Parasites

Author:Rick Falkvinge

“I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.”

Thinking Made Bigs Film Deals Mistake Creating Guilt Developing Sci Fi Dystopian Bleak Big Mistake Sci Fi Film

Author:Maggie Grace