Gary Kovacs Quotes

Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re still being watched and recorded.

Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

Everything I say and do, I assume that I am being spied on.

It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.

'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.

Someone is always watching or listening.

The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you as they have done already.

Oversight was not meant to be comfortable.

I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government

Homeland security intelligence done the wrong way will give us thought police.

We encounter the dilemma of freedom versus authority in all sorts of places but probably nowhere more frequently than in the area of Big Brother's ongoing efforts to protect us from ourselves – efforts that many people view as an invasion of their privacy or as infringement upon their God-given right to be stupid (though they don't usually put it that way).

If we take away all our privacy rights, we become our own terrorists.

Surveillance becomes more odious to the surveilled as it is coupled with secrecy…. Surveillance creates a power differential. The spies know ever more about the spied-on, who know virtually nothing about the spies.