Sentence examples for crime of thought from inspiring English sources

We can't punish the crime of thought.

A brief by a French lawyer said that, "a crime of thought seems to have been camouflaged as a common law crime".

When twitchfork mobs are circling some poor tweeter for crimes of thought I often add the rumour "I heard he bummed a puffin" simply to cheer myself up.

In Cuba, hundreds of people are jailed every day for what are called crimes of thought.

Montes, who has received donations from armament companies as well as the National Association of Arms and Ammunition, is among those Brazilians who subscribe to the "more guns means less crime" school of thought.

They dismiss such measures as palliatives that may sound fine but that, among their other failings, mock the concept of equal protection under the law while penalizing defendants extra hard for the crime of harboring thoughts that society deems unacceptable.

The fact that she dies for a crime of intention, of thought, gives the book a further modern resonance.

In crime prevention, one school of thought holds that to stop a thief, you hire one.

The idea of thought crime echoes Orwell's 1984, and of course it takes on a further resonance because of current stories about illegal government surveillance of ordinary people.

The government's recent emphasis on combating "non-violent extremism" – a more slippery enemy than terrorism – has arguably nudged the strategy into the Orwellian realm of thought crime: simply expressing beliefs that conflict with "British values" could be enough to draw the attention of Prevent.

Or the new obligation, introduced last year, on people like teachers to "have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism" that led to young children being reported to the authorities for what feels like an Orwellian kind of thought crime.