Thought Crimes Quotes

#1. Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?
I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.
In the name of revolution, for thought crimes,
Such questions can turn me to ashes.

Zoe S. Roy

#2. The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

Ben Harper

#3. I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

Muhammad Ali

#4. I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

Corin Tucker

#5. We were marked and had been marked in unforgettable and forever ways. We were all better men for it. Marked men. None of us would have it any other way.

Jay Crownover

#6. Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.

John Marsden

#7. I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.

Matthew Morrison

#8. I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Junot Diaz

#9. I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

Steve Coogan

#10. Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

John Stossel

#11. Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought,

Walt Whitman

#12. I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?

Gil Valle

#13. We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.

George Orwell

#14. Although whites were more likely to be guilty of carrying drugs, they were far less likely to be viewed as suspicious, resulting in relatively few stops, searches, and arrests of whites. The

Michelle Alexander

#15. I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Glenn Close

#16. The women were responsible for everything. They were guilty of crimes, real and illusory. They had not thought hard enough, tried hard enough, asked enough of themselves. It was as if the plane had fallen from the sky for the sole reason that they had stopped flapping their arms.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#17. The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!

Dada Bhagwan

#18. There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Clarence Darrow

#19. We tell stories of other people's marriages, Detective Hastroll thought. We are experts in their parables and parabolas. Be can we tell the story of our own. If we could, Hastroll thought, there might be no murders. If we could, we might avoid our own cruelties and crimes.

Adam Ross

#20. Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Nora Ephron

#21. He thought of how the world organises its affairs so that civilisation every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life. And how people accept this either by ignoring it and calling it current affairs or politics or wars,

Richard Flanagan

#22. It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

Alison Elliott

#23. The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterwards.

Anonymous

#24. I've always thought, if heaven is such a wonderful place, why is entering it so absurdly easy? Confess your sins, ask forgiveness - and that is all? No matter what your crimes?

Rick Yancey

#25. Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Jackson Browne

#26. Nothing that'll kill us sounded good, but Holden felt a pang for his coffeemaker. Alex,

James S.A. Corey

#27. You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby