Top 32 George Orwell Big Brother Quotes
#1. At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes
George Orwell
#3. Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.
George Orwell
#4. 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.
James Gleick
#5. I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
Charles Portis
#6. Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope
George Orwell
#7. Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.
George Orwell
#8. You mean beyond the obvious drawbacks of being involved with a self-proclaimed and unapologetic asshole?
Qwen Salsbury
#9. The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?
Craig Ferguson
#10. The mind is stronger than any muscle.
Mod Sun
#11. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.
George Orwell
#13. Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation;
Jonathan Edwards
#14. Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She has no word for longing or despair.
M.L. Stedman
#15. It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened.
George Orwell
#16. Does Big Brother exist?"
"Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party."
"Does he exist in the same way as I exist?"
"You do not exist.
George Orwell
#17. Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.
Jim Butcher
#18. April the 4th, 1984.
To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!
George Orwell
#19. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
George Orwell
#21. Will Big Brother ever die?" "Of course not. How could he die? Next question.
George Orwell
#22. Panky thinking: We had nuclear holocaust on our lips, Big Brother on our minds, 1984 was just around the corner and we were shit scared about the future - George Orwell and Margaret Thatcher had a lot to answer for.
Peter L Masters
#23. Many of those who refer to Orwell seem not to have read much more than Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, if those. The millions who have heard of Big Brother and Room 101 know nothing of their progenitor.
Peter Davidson
#24. But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
George Orwell
#26. You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.
Esai Morales
#27. The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".
George Orwell
#28. As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.
James Vila Blake
#30. Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.
Trent Reznor
#31. They'll shoot me I dont care they'll shoot me in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother
George Orwell
#32. life is too narrow to walk in but wide to run throw
Jack Daniels
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