It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn't made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
By becoming the Twitter police we've volunteered to become the thought police: This seems indisputable, even uncontroversial. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to have the thought police going to people's homes, dictating what they teach their children. I don't want to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.” — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“[Censoring] knowledge, telling people what they must think and what ideas are impermissible, which lines of evidence may not be pursued, is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If the thought police come to Armitage Baptist Church, we will meet them at the door respectfully, unflinchingly, willing to die on… — Todd Starnes Copy Share Image
“Parsons was Winston’s fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created… — Orwell.G Copy Share Image
“The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was what Julia had been thinking for weeks, but now she said, You mustn't think that. It was they who made… — Sandra Newman Copy Share Image
“No matter what you do, no matter what you say, someone out there will proclaim how outraged they are, because they think… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
The real reason President Trump was elected, I think, to the extent I know anything about politics at all - and I… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
“ April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“So why don't they face us... examine our evidence, debate, talk... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out… — Randolph D. Calverhall Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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