History Quotes / CulturePolice

-->--'''''Quote attributed to UsefulNotes/JosephStalin'''''

->''"Hitler hated painters who were better than him, which is to say, virtually everybody."''

->family values: ''State-sponsored totalitarian control of women and/or children, characterized by flagrant sexist double standards, authorities turning a blind eye to domestic violence, rape, and pedophilia--[[MoralMyopia but only when men do it]], and intolerance of freedom of religion, speech, and assembly, among other undesirable things.''
->''No wonder [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] and the [[UsefulNotes/SaudiArabia Saudis]] are so tight!''
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

->''“They passed a law. Oh, it started very small. In 1950 and ‘60 it was a grain of sand. They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religions prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. Afraid of the word ‘politics’ (which eventually became a [[RedScare synonym for Communism among the more reactionary elements]], so I hear, and it was worth your life to use the word!), and with a screw tightened here, a bolt fastened there, a push, a pull, a yank, art and literature were soon like a great twine of taffy strung about, being twisted in braids and tied in knots and thrown in all directions, until there was no more resiliency and no more savor to it. Then the film cameras chopped short and the theaters turned dark, and the print presses trickled down from a great Niagara of reading matter to a mere innocuous dripping of ‘pure’ material. Oh, the word ‘escape’ was radical, too, I tell you!”''

-->--'''''UsefulNotes/JosephStalin'''''

-->-- [[http://tardiseruditorum.blogspot.com/2012/06/thats-it-ive-been-renewed-paradise.html Phil Sandifer]]

-->--'''''UrbanDictionary'''''

->''[[YouCannotKillAnIdea Ideas are weapons]]. We would not let [[CategoryTraitor our enemies]] have weapons, so why would we let them have ideas?''

->If in a country there are the following ten evils: rites, music, odes, history, [[GoodnessTropes virtue, moral culture]], [[ThickerThanWater filial piety, brotherly duty]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness integrity]], and sophistry, the ruler cannot make the people fight and dismemberment is inevitable; and this brings extinction in train. If a country has not these ten things and a ruler can make the people fight, he will be so prosperous he can attain supremacy.

->''Hitler hated painters who were better than him, which is to say, virtually everybody. ''

->''Every week, each television network would secretly produce a list of names of actors, writers, and directors who could not be hired. The list was arbitrary, to say the last. There was, however, a means of expiation for those excluded. A grocery-store owner in Schenectady had made himself [[AuthorityInNameOnly the acknowledged authority on Communism]] by refusing to sell anything advertised on those programs that hired Communists. Simply, a threat from him could deprive you of work; however, if the proscribed actors or writer proved to be genuinely repentant, he could go to Schenectady, much as a sick Catholic might go to Lourdes, and there {{the Butcher}}, as we called him, would absolve him if he swore to sin no more.''

-- [[http://tardiseruditorum.blogspot.com/2012/06/thats-it-ive-been-renewed-paradise.html Phil Sandifer]]

-->-- '''Lord Shang Yang''', ''{{The Book of Lord Shang}}''