Thought Police Quotes

• There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

  George Orwell

  Knowing, Police, Darkness

  George Orwell (2003). "1984", Plume Books

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• El crimen del pensamiento no es algo que pueda ocultarse para siempre. Podías esquivarlo con éxito durante un tiempo, incluso durante años, pero tarde o temprano te atraparían.

  George Orwell

  Years, Forever, Nineteen

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

  George Orwell

  Night, Names, People

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.19, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

  Craig Reucassel

  Police, Protect

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• It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

  George Orwell

  Children, People, Normal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

  Michael Barone

  Jobs, Police, Intellectual

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• You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

  George Orwell

  Darkness, Sound, Assumption

  "1984". Book by George Orwell, June 8, 1949.

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• Fue con la última revolución y la llegada del INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) que los últimos Altos aprendieron cómo mantener su posición permanentemente - cultivando la ignorancia entre las otras clases y vigilándolas constantemente a través de la Policía del Pensamiento. Parte de esta estrategia incluía el mantenimiento de un estado de guerra continua, que Goldstein analizó en el tercer capítulo. Las tres grandes potencias no luchaban en esta guerra perpetua por la victoria; luchaban por mantener un estado de excepción siempre presente como la garantía más segura del autoritarismo.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

  David Mamet

  Freedom, Media, Expression

  David Mamet (1986). "Escribir en restaurantes", Viking Adult

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• Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Strong, Men, Wrath

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• 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 so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

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• There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.

  I. F. Stone

  War, Mean, Play

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.27, PublicAffairs

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• Hablando de quemar libros, quiero felicitar a los bibliotecarios, no famosos por su fuerza física, que, en todo este país, han resistido incondicionalmente a los matones antidemocráticos que han intentado retirar ciertos libros de sus estanterías, y han destruido registros antes que tener que revelar a la policía del pensamiento los nombres de las personas que han sacado esos títulos. Así pues, la América que yo amaba sigue existiendo, aunque no sea en la Casa Blanca, el Tribunal Supremo, el Senado, la Cámara de Representantes o los medios de comunicación. La América que yo amaba sigue existiendo en los mostradores de nuestras bibliotecas públicas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  País, Libro, Nombres

  "Un hombre sin patria". Libro de Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), 15 de septiembre de 2005.

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

  George Orwell

  True Life, Splinters, Life Is

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1280, Penguin UK

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• La policía es el público y el público es la policía.

  Robert Peel

  Police, Policemen

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry Siegel, Cengage Learning, (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

  George Orwell

  Dust, Years, Knowing

  George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

  Tommy Chong

  Correr, Campo, Policía

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• La argumentación filosófica, intentar que alguien crea algo tanto si quiere creerlo como si no, no es, he sostenido, una forma agradable de comportarse con alguien; tampoco se ajusta a la motivación original para estudiar o entrar en filosofía. Esa motivación es la perplejidad, la curiosidad, el deseo de comprender, no el deseo de producir uniformidad de creencias. La mayoría de la gente no quiere convertirse en policía del pensamiento. El objetivo filosófico de la explicación en lugar de la prueba no sólo es moralmente mejor, sino que está más de acuerdo con la motivación filosófica de cada uno.

  Robert Nozick

  Motivation, Philosophy, Nice

  Robert Nozick (1981). “Philosophical Explanations”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. 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 you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, People, African American

  Fuente: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• 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 you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, People, African American

  "Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

  Salman Rushdie

  Police, Religion, Dissing

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.81, Random House

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