Top 15 Quotes About Big Brother In 1984
#1. 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
#2. Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope
George Orwell
#3. 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
#4. I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.
LeRoy Neiman
#5. 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
#7. Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.
Rene Balcer
#8. Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.
Compton Mackenzie
#9. They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.
Harry Reid
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. If Orwell had a chance to write 1984 from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule.
Ishmael Reed
#13. I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. That was why he was the director of the hospital and not a patient, because he thought a lot before making any decisions.
Paulo Coelho
#15. She used to think alone was the answer. Alone would stop the whispers and the taunts. Alone couldn't get her into any more trouble. Alone meant not getting hurt. Now, she'd give anything to see another human being. To hear someone call her name
Kathryn Holmes
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top