Thought Prison Quotes

“If you believe in nothing, if life can have no real objective meaning and all is socially constructed; then pleasure is absolutely necessary as an analgesic, and distraction is the primary philosophical argument. The politically correct are nihilists, that is reality-deniers, and when there is no reality then the only positive is pleasure.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison

“Just as with the cruder totalitarianism of the mid-twentieth century, PC has created a population that lives in fear: fear of being denounced and losing everything – fear of committing (or indeed merely being accused-of) a thought crime or uttering a hate fact for which there is no defence; fear of the sanctions which range from social ostracism, through loss of job, financial penalties, up to directed mob violence and imprisonment.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison

“What is current in the media is definitive. Sin can be made into virtue, virtue into sin; propaganda can be made into truth, truth into propaganda; beauty can be reframed as Kitsch and ugliness celebrated as beauty.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison

“Political correctness believes that humans, like animals, lack a soul – and believes that death is an end to consciousness. PC also believes that suffering is the worst evil. That combination should worry you.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison

“When PC subverts The Good and instead promotes Vice, Lies, and Ugliness this is self-perceived as merely humble experiments in pursuit of the Better.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison

“Political correctness is utterly indifferent to what happens to human beings – and I do not mean relatively insensitive to the consequences of its policies, but utterly indifferent.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison

“political correctness very obviously violates both common sense and logic, and is destructive of all that is good, beautiful and true.”
― Bruce G. Charlton, Thought Prison