Translation of "Thought crime" in German

I thought crime scenes were below a D.A.'s pay grade.

When we prohibited hostile thought, crime began to drop immediately.

Why not consider the thought already a crime?

He probably thought his crime was unforgivable and his punishment justified.

Mr President, on behalf of the European Parliament, I call on you to take action to ensure that this human rights activist, whose only crime is a thought crime, is released.

Whilst most of these are serious violent, sexual or dishonesty offences, the list also includes the nebulous thought-crime offences beloved in so many continental countries, so that the arrested person could be sent for trial, or rather automatic conviction, to one of those wretched places.

This is merely one anecdote from a hare-brained system that perceives thought as a crime, and thinkers as criminals who deserve to be thrown in prison.

In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

In a modern twist on the Orwellian "thought crime", control measures are imposed on the basis of what someone might do in the future, rather than on any criminal act committed.

That is the very definition of thought-crime, where it's not tangible facts or words that matter, but the thoughts behind them, the intention, the implicit.

The offer Clinton made demanded that this activist—convicted only of the "thought crime" of seditious conspiracy—serve more time than his co-defendants, and left two co-defendants out of the deal.

This is an ominous march to an Orwellian world of Thought Police, "Newspeak" and "thought-crime" or, as Facebook likes to call it, "de-ranking" and "counterspeech."

How long will it be before you're ordered to have one to correct thought crime?

And since the anti-Semitic National Socialists are said to have killed 6 million Jews in gas chambers, anti-Semitism is the worst thought-crime committable.

The thought of these crimes causes me to hold deep-seated anxieties.

And I am opposed to the category of thought crimes.

Afterwards he told the practitioner that he thought the crimes by the Communist regime were terrible.

You will allow me, in a Europe where thought crimes are on the increase, and where claims of national preference are equated with discrimination, legitimate discussions of aspects of history with revisionism, rejection of communitarism…

There is a profound risk that extending the criminal law as proposed, beyond actions and intentions and into the realm of opinion, commentary, and even fantasy, carries the danger of creating thought-crimes.

Hani Gor?, a Marxist historian who had been imprisoned during the war for thought crimes and had been elected to the House of Councillors (the successor to the abolished House of Peers) after the war, spearheaded the reform efforts.

Jules Lemaître, a less sympathetic critic, thought the extraordinary crimes of his heroes and heroines, his reactionary opinions, his dandyism and snobbery were a caricature of Byronism.

Thought commits no crimes, my friend.

Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.

Saga and Martin have understood that they're dealing with someone who has really thought through his crimes, planning them down to the smallest detail.