Big Brother Quotes

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“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, 1984

“The anger subsided, and my shoulders fell. “I know you didn’t. But you have got to curb this overprotective big-brother thing you’ve got going on.”
Travis laughed once. “I’m not playing the big brother, Pigeon. Not even close.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.
'White to play and mate in two moves.'
Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“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, 1984

“Old George Orwell got it backward.Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface.
Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars.”
― Paul Joseph Watson

“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possiblity of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The Pavlovian strategy in public relations has people conditioned more and more to ask themselves, "What do other people think?" As a reuslt, a common delusion is created: people are incited to think what other people think, and thus public opinion may mushroom out into a mass prejudice.

Expressed in psychoanalytic terms, through daily propagandistic noise backed up by forceful verbal cues, people can more and more be forced to identify with the powerful noisemaker. Big brother's voice resounds in all the little brothers.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“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, 1984

“The Soviet Union never ended. It reformed itself as the Woke West, a totalitarian liberal, rather than communist, nightmare. Big Brother became Non-Binary Elder Sibling.”
― David Sinclair, Without the Mob, There Is No Circus

“The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition. (...) We're destroying words - scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone. (...)
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take 'good', for instance. If you have a word like 'good', what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well (...).
Or again, if you want a stronger version of 'good', what sense is there in have a whole string of vague useless words like 'excellent' and 'splendid' and all the rest of them? 'Plusgood' covers the meaning, or 'doubleplusgood' is you want something stronger still (...).
Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?
(...)
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Be careful your thoughts because you do not know who is listening.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Big brother has turned into a drunken uncle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Als een vrouw die haar kont en tieten laat zien al een BV is, dan is het ver gekomen.”
― Jean Pierre Van Rossem

“Ik word niet betaald voor mijn deelname aan Big Brother VIPS, dat ik trouwens nog steeds een kloteprogramma vind!”
― Jean Pierre Van Rossem

“A civilized world is built by concerned and caring brothers and sisters, not by cold and indifferent strangers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

“His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers,
boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first convinced and then maddened”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Het kan niet anders dat dit programma een flop in het kwadraat wordt. Het niveau van die BV's ligt beneden alle peil. (Big Brother Vips)”
― Jean Pierre Van Rossem

“You need to watch what you say in a society full of eyes.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Change will never happen when change isn't allowed to exist.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Your life is an open book, or at least a file on a hard drive in someone's office.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Who gave Martina that book, with the wrong intentions, instructions, and lies attached?
Certainly, it was neither Gucho nor Damian, as they spoke neither Spanish nor English.
They weren’t Golems. Rather Ogres.”
― Tomas Adam Nyapi, BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA

“Thou Shalt Kill by Stewart Stafford

Today, an official declaration:
"The past's forbidden soil is virgin;
The present, a thunderous chariot,
To glory's gold destiny awaiting us.
Go forth and offer up sacrifices!"

But the blood we spilt was red,
Whichever body it spurted from.
Pleas for help, fused into one.
Witnesses to death grew jaded.

We made the living into the dead,
Forged museums of crowded streets,
In executioners' hoods at limp dawn.
Arising afresh to our deliverance.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“A Malignant State by Stewart Stafford

When oozing eyes of paranoia,
And the septic ears of hearsay,
Vomit hysteria up as atrocity,
The mad dog jackal has its day.

A demented warden's open prison,
Each dwelling house, a divided cell,
Community focus now second best,
Our loved ones, cats in the wishing well.

For your "security," a police state, gifted,
Humiliation's fires rage by a dry water spout,
A lawfare circus for their spoiler alerts,
Truth's spectral vessel a flood of doubt.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I think some people have missed the point of George Orwell's 1984 or they're deliberately avoiding its message. It was meant to be a stark warning against authoritarianism, not The Idiot's Guide To Starting A Big Brother Dictatorship which appears to be happening worldwide now. How very human.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Big Brother is not watching you; Big Brother is you, watching.”
― Stanley Rothman, The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture