“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” --George Orwell
“The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.” --William Gibson
“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” --Anthony Burgess
“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.” --Ursula K. Le Guin
“It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” -- Franz Kafka
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.” -- H.G. Wells
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” --Aldous Huxley
“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.” --Walter M. Miller Jr.
“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” -- Margaret Atwood
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.” -- Philip K. Dick
“There is no God and we are his prophets.” --Cormac McCarthy
"No amount of technology can overcome stupidity." -Billy Jones
Could it be all these great dystopian authors were really writing about Greensboro, North Carolina? Considering what we now know it doesn't seem all that far fetched. Sorry about the last one. It's from my first book, Carrot On A Stick. It just seemed to fit.
