“Here's Big Brother, singing and dancing, force-feeding you, so your mind never goes hungry enough to think.”
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14
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American novelist, essayist 1962Related quotes
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: 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.
“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
David Lloyd George
Misattributed
“You sing the song in your heart and the people it resonates with are going to dance to it.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 53
“Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.”
Variant: Love is,” she repeated slowly, looking only at Dasha, “when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“I am yours. If you feed me garbage,
I will sing a song of garbage.
This is a hymn.”
"Pig Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21982
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
