--- title: "2 Dystopia Quotes By Mark Cantrell" description: "2 Dystopia quotes by Mark Cantrell. Plus more from Mark Cantrell and more Dystopia sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/mark-cantrell-53485_dystopia_eric-you-need-to-look-at-the-whole-pictu_1112942.jpg" --- > [“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/eric-you-need-to-look-at-the-whole-picture-the-pm-said-you-look-at/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/mark-cantrell-53485_dystopia_eric-you-need-to-look-at-the-whole-pictu_1112942.jpg) > [“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones sat at a bank of machines: the blind and the illiterate force-fed with ‘opportunities’ by soothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/beyond-the-queues-the-vacancy-screens-listed-jobs-in-a-multitude-of/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98e/mark-cantrell-53485_beggars_beyond-the-queues-the-vacancy-screens-li_3051713.jpg) ## Other authors on Dystopia - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-s-l-wallace-38845.jpg) S.L. Wallace 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dystopia/s-l-wallace/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-slava-pilotoff-41181.jpg) Slava Pilotoff 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dystopia/slava-pilotoff/) - [Paula Altenburg 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dystopia/paula-altenburg/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dystopia/george-orwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hayden-schlossberg-40916.jpg) Georgia Clark 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dystopia/georgia-clark/) ## More by Mark Cantrell > [“If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind accumulated, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/if-arts-and-music-precious-gifts-in-themselves-were-akin-to-memory/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) > [“In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/in-ar-a-falling-tree-makes-no-sound-unless-there-is-a-witness-to/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) > [“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/eric-you-need-to-look-at-the-whole-picture-the-pm-said-you-look-at/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) > [“AND where did the books go when the world turned against them? When the flames of wrath blackened their pages and erased the words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/and-where-did-the-books-go-when-the-world-turned-against-them-when/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) > [“We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/we-nurture-the-candle-flames-that-show-the-way-ahead-we-are/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) > [“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people in headphones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-cantrell/beyond-the-queues-the-vacancy-screens-listed-jobs-in-a-multitude-of/) [Mark Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-cantrell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dystopia/mark-cantrell/#itemlist", "name": "2 Dystopia Quotes By Mark Cantrell", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture,\" the PM said. \"You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves a purpose. I need my zeros, Eric. They put fear in people; fear of crime and terrorism. They are a stark reminder to the stakeholders that what they despise today, they may end up joining tomorrow. 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