1984 Surveillance Quotes

#1. Knowing we're saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

Beth Moore

#2. Never give up on love, with love everything is possible.

M. Howson

#3. In the old days a proposed system would have been given a three-letter acronym and bounced back and forth between different agencies and contractors for fifteen years before being launched into space.

Neal Stephenson

#4. For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'

Jonathan Turley

#5. For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.

William Shakespeare

#6. In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.

Michael Schoeffling

#7. The most successful network marketers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person's needs ahead of their own.

Bob Burg

#8. Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

Ramez Naam