Big Brother Is Watching/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|They live there in that great plascrete tower surrounded by walls and razor wire, only emerging to seize some unfortunate who has transgressed against the Imperial Laws or to patrol the city to prove that it belongs to them. There are crystal lenses and sound wave detectors on that tower that can watch citizens or listen to their conversations 100 leagues away. Imperial spy satellites watch what they can't see directly and even the Governor fears them. They aren't from here and have nothing to do with us, no more than Orks or Eldar, if they have families or children we don't know about them and we don't care. They wouldn't so much as buy a glowbulb from us and we wouldn't sell it to them. It's ironic that they have the rather benevolent title of Arbitrators.|'''Vorkas Zolowski''', prior to his arrest for pernicious sedition against the Emperor of Mankind, ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''}}

 

'''THE EMPEROR IS WATCHING'''|''[[Warhammer 40000]]''}}

 

{{quote|Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.|'''Chuck Palahniuk''' }}

 

They're shaking hands, they're shaking in their shoes, oh Lord don't shake me down.|'''Modest Mouse''', "Paper Thin Walls"}}

 

Everybody wants to rule the world|'''Everybody Wants to Rule The World''', "Tears for Fears"}}

 

{{quote|"Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of ''being connected'' one to another then the chances of freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning." (emphasis as original)|[[Thomas Pynchon]], ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' seemingly predicting that the Internet and ever increasing amounts of cheap computer power would assist repression in a book published in 1973.}}

 

and a bird on the wing may report what you say.|''[[The Bible]]'', Ecclesiastes 10:20 (New International Version)}}