“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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Chuck Palahniuk555
American novelist, essayist 1962Related quotes
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
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.
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”
Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes (1996)
“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
David Lloyd George
Misattributed
“You sing the song in your heart and the people it resonates with are going to dance to it.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
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.”
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
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.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
"Pig Song" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=21982 <br class="br">Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1976)
