“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”
Source: 1984
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George Orwell473
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Ali Khamenei (1939) Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islamic leader
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Explains 'Death to America' Slogan http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/irans-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-explains-death-america-slogan-n456406 (November 3, 2015) <br class="br">2015
“A good death does honor to a whole life.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Un bel morir tutta la vita honora.
Canzone 207 (c. 1348), st. 5
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Conclusion, p. 539
The Coming of Age (1970)
“If the soul does not exist, then stop believing in life and death as well.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Why I Am an Agnostic (1896)
Context: What can be more frightful than a world at-war? Every leaf a battle-field—every flower a Golgotha—in every drop of water pursuit, capture and death. Under every piece of bark, life lying in wait for life. On every blade of grass, something that kills,—something that suffers. Everywhere the strong living on the weak—the superior on the inferior. Everywhere the weak, the insignificant, living on the strong—the inferior on the superior—the highest food for the lowest—man sacrificed for the sake of microbes. Murder universal. Everywhere pain, disease and death—death that does not wait for bent forms and gray hairs, but clutches babes and happy youths. Death that takes the mother from her helpless, dimpled child—death that fills the world with grief and tears. How can the orthodox Christian explain these things?
