Dystopia Quote by Nish Kumar

“The collapse of order brings in its wake the four horsemen of the apocalypse - famine, war, pestilence, and death. Population declines, and wages…

— Peter Turchin

The warlords took part in atrocities during the civil war in Afghanistan. They looted, they raped, they killed. They have become incredibly empowered and…

— Khaled Hosseini

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

— Herbert Hoover

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“ever and again we find some leader or some tribe amidst the disorder of free and independent nomads, powerful enough to force a sort…

— H.G. Wells

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

— Peter Singer

“Our questioning—again echoing Ghazali—of the likely impact of development efforts (“prosperity,” in his formula) also flew in the face of received wisdom. For years,…

— Sarah Chayes

“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.”

— James Dale Davidson

“Every human society must of necessity be composed of several strata. You may disturb it temporarily into an amorphous whole by a revolution such…

— Rafael Sabatini

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their…

— Maria Nikiforova

I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed…

— Lierre Keith