BIG BROTHER in Classic Quotes

1  Nobody heard what Big Brother was saying.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

3  On the walls were scarlet banners of the Youth League and the Spies, and a full-sized poster of Big Brother.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

4  Very likely as many as a dozen people were now working away on rival versions of what Big Brother had actually said.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

5  There, too, in tiny clear lettering, the same slogans were inscribed, and on the other face of the coin the head of Big Brother.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

6  In the Party histories, of course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

7  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.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

8  But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother--it was all a sort of glorious game to them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

10  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.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  Big Brother's Order for the Day, it seemed, had been chiefly devoted to praising the work of an organization known as FFCC, which supplied cigarettes and other comforts to the sailors in the Floating Fortresses.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

12  With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

13  But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-moustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  For example, it appeared from 'The Times' of the seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his speech of the previous day, had predicted that the South Indian front would remain quiet but that a Eurasian offensive would shortly be launched in North Africa.'

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

15  A number of 'The Times' which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it.'

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

16  Thus, at one moment Winston's hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

17  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 of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1