"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your

                             spirit, or it is nowhere."

                         "Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually

                          show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future."

                          - Lauren Oliver
 

                           "'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story."

                           "I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears."

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

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

                           "Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern?

                            It wouldn't be escapism."

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

                            - Charlie Jane Anders

                           "Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse."

                           - Shelly Crane, Collide
 

                             "This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men."

                              - Leot Felton, The After
 

                           "The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed."

                            "Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way

                             of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy."

                            - Suzanne Collins
 

                           "The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past."

                            - Lois Lowry, The Giver

                           "The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope

                            that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when

                            all I see now is hell."

                            - Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries III: Luke the Protector
 

                           "Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.
                            And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield."

                           - Rick Yancey
 

                           "For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time,

                            I welcomed the unknown."

                           - Nicole Sobon, Submerged

                           "Every dystopia is masked by a utopia."

                           - Mackenzie Draman, Pick 7

                           "Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human

                            behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems."

                           - Cyril Connolly

                           "The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're

                            bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become

                            blood and flames, along with everybody else."

                           "He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game

                            where Death was the only winner."

                           "At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it."

                           - Erich Fromm, 1984

                           "That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide."

                           - Eugène Ionesco, Man With Bags
 

                            "Nothing exists except through human consciousness"

                             - George Orwell, 1984

                           "A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.”

                           - Robert Friedrich

                           "The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships.

                            The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change."

                           "Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance

                            of the position increases."

                           - John Adams quotes