History Quotes / Thoughtcrime

-->--''Literature/TheBible'' (King James Version), [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew 5:28]]

->'''Ahmad''': Why has he to die?\\
'''Jaffar''': He had been thinking, sire.\\
'''Ahmad''': Is it a crime to think?\\
'''Jaffar''': In a subject it is quite unpardonable.
-->--''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940''

-->--'''Winston Smith''', ''Film/NineteenEightyFour''

-->--''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell''', ''Why Men Fight''

-->--'''Creator/HLMencken'''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/JosephStalin'''

->''We will mercilessly destroy anyone who, by his deeds or his thoughts—yes, his thoughts!—threatens the unity of the socialist state. To the complete destruction of all enemies, themselves and their kin!''
-->--'''Josef Stalin'''

->''"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid."''\\
--'''Creator/BertrandRussell''', ''Why Men Fight''

->''"The most dangerous man, to any government, is a man who's able to think things through for himself, without regard for prevailing superstitions and taboos. Without exception, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is immoral, incompetent and corrupt, and if he's a romantic personally he will try to change it. And even if he's not he is quick to spread discontent among those who are."''\\
--'''Creator/HLMencken'''

->''"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"''\\
--'''UsefulNotes/JosephStalin'''

->''"Now and then it seems that banning is all they can do. It's all they seem to ''want'' to do. That's the problem with a free nation: you can't make yourself significant by granting freedoms, so you spend your time looking for freedoms to restrict in the name of a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans greater good]], and there's always a greater good... As long as we're worried about sending messages: it sends an excellent message to let kids know that something that might encourage [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour doubleplus Ungoodthink]] can be taken away by the state because you might draw the wrong conclusions."''\\
-- '''James Lileks''', ''The Bleat'', [[http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=1334 "Thursday, March 05"]]

->''"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."''
-->--'''{{Creator/Voltaire}}'''

-->--''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad''

-->--''Literature/TheBible'' (King James Version), Matthew 5:28

->''"...everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."''
-->--''Literature/TheBible'' (New American Standard Bible), Matthew 28

-->--'''''Literature/TheBible''''' (New American Standard Bible), Matthew 28

->''"Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed -- would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper -- the essential crime that contained all others in itself. {{Thoughtcrime}}, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever."''
-->-- '''''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'''''

--'''BertrandRussell''', ''Why Men Fight''

--'''JosephStalin'''

--'''[[HLMencken H. L. Mencken]]'''

->''"“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid."''\\
--'''Bertrand Russell''', ''Why Men Fight''

->''"...everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."''\\
--Literature/TheBible (New American Standard Bible), Matthew 28

->''"“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid."''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell''', ''Why Men Fight''

->''"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"''\\
--'''JosephStalin'''

->''"The most dangerous man, to any government, is a man who's able to think things through for himself, without regard for prevailing superstitions and taboos. Without exception, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is immoral, incompetent and corrupt, and if he's a romantic personally he will try to change it. And even if he's not he is quick to spread discontent among those who are."''\\
--'''[[HLMencken H. L. Mencken]]'''

--Literature/TheBible, Matthew 28