Big Brother
Big Brother is a term used to refer to presumptive authority figures in totalitarian societies.
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Quotes
- In the case of Stalin and those of his sect, it is perhaps not paternalism that is at stake. It is, however, definitely something that resembles it so closely as to be mistaken for it. Let us invent a word for it: “fraternalism.” For we are indeed dealing with a brother, a big brother who, full of his own superiority and sure of his experience, takes you by the hand (alas, sometimes roughly) in order to lead you along the path to where he knows Reason and Progress can be found.
- Aimé Césaire, Letter to Maurice Thorez resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers
