Max Richter Quotes

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.

I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

A functioning police state needs no police.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.

What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved in the context of retro-totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and your private life is effaced.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I'm sorry, but you read science fiction.'

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

The worst thing our Communists could do to us, and the thing we have most to fear from their activities, is that we should become like them.

Nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.