Dystopian Author Quotes

Arthur Koestler The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has […]

Arthur Koestler Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Arthur Koestler Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Arthur Koestler I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned […]

Arthur Koestler Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

Arthur Koestler Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated […]

Arthur Koestler Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a […]

Arthur Koestler One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

Arthur Koestler The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.