Dystopia
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I had a dream,
which was not all a dream.
—George Gordon, Lord Byron
Darkness
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A flood is threatening
my very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
or I'm gonna fade away
—Rolling Stones
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
—Animal Farm
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You got the horse race
You got the dog race
You got the human race
But this is a rat race
—Bob Marley
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IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
—Party slogan, 1984
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Feed ‘em shit
and keep ‘em in the dark.
—”Mushroom treatment”, Anonymous
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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
—Adolf Hitler
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I always tell the truth,
even when I lie.
—Donald Trump
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
—George Orwell
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We had to destroy the country in order to save it.
—Unidentified American soldier in Vietnam
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Things fall apart
the center cannot hold
—William Butler Yeats
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Because even if I should speak, no one would believe me, and they would not believe me precisely because they would know that what I said was true.
—James Baldwin
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It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
—George Carlin
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
—Oscar Wilde
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Don’t worry, everything’s going to be all right.
—World War Z
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In these dark times,
will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times
—Bertolt Brecht
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And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
―Bob Dylan
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Welcome to the new world order.
―Bruce Springsteen
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Dimension seven
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—Wipers via Nirvana
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