Line #14 Quotes/Dystopia


1	->''Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy -- everything.''
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3	->''Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.''
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5	->''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. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. 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.''
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7	->''If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.''
8	-->-- '''O'Brien''', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
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10	->''A future so chaotic and grim, you won't want to live long enough to get there.''
11	-->-- '''''Trauma 2020''''' tagline
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13	->''If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.''
14	-->-- '''Yogi Bera'''
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16	->''We have longed to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.''
17	-->-- '''Professor Milton Glass''', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''
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19	->'''The Drode:''' I will tell you about reality. [[DayOfTheJackboot Your country is an empire ruled by terror and torture]]. It has made war on the nations to the south. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName It slaughters peoples it calls 'Primitives.']] It enslaves anyone with an IQ below eighty, as well as anyone born with what you call defects. All in all, [[CardCarryingVillain it's my kind of place]].
20	->'''Marco:''' That's bull!
21	->'''The Drode:''' I assure you it is all true. [[PuppeteerParasite The Yeerks]] are within months of consolidating control. The lack of freedom among humans has made their conquest ever so much easier. Your few books, your two radio stations, your single television channel are all censored. [[FascistButInefficient Your technology is fifty years behind where it should be. Poverty is widespread, curable diseases run rampant]], some women are [[BabyFactory forced to breed]] to repopulate the dominant white race while at the same time, in the major cities the poor and homeless are rounded up and shot-
22	-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} - Megamorphs #3''
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24	->[[CrapsaccharineWorld Nea So Copros]] is poisoning itself to death. [[PollutedWasteland Its soil is polluted, its rivers lifeless, its air toxloaded, its food supplies riddled with rogue genes]]. The downstrata can't buy the drugs necessary to counter these privations. Melanoma and malaria belts advance southwards at forty kilometers per year. Those Production Zones of Africa and Indonesia that supply Consumer Zones' demands are sixty percent uninhabitable. Plutocracy's legitimacy, its wealth, is drying up; the Juche's Enrichment Laws are mere sticking plasters on haemorrhages and amputations. Its only other response is that strategy beloved of all bankrupt ideologues: [[HeadInTheSandManagement denial]]. Downstrata purebloods fall into the ''[[WrongSideOfTheTracks untermensch]]'' [[WrongSideOfTheTracks sinks]]; xecs parrot Catechism Seven, "A Soul's Value Is The Dollars Within."
25	-->--'''Sonmi-451,''' ''Literature/CloudAtlas''
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