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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Trope Namer]]: ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'', in a story-within-the-story. Note that the dissident is, in this case, Jesus Christ ''who had resurrected a little girl from death''. He gets arrested by the Holy Inquisition, and the Grand Inquisitor tells him he should have given in to all of the Devil's temptations in the wilderness, because then the Church would rule the world. As he won't, the Grand Inquisitor says he isn't wanted by them and should leave. Jesus does, after giving him a kiss.
** It's not quite that black and white. The Grand Inquisitor claims Christ sinned by not giving into the temptations because giving in would have meant giving man food, miracles to believe in, and an authority to rule them; here's [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Temptation_of_Christ:Temptation of Christ|the other wiki's]] explanation. The Grand Inquisitor, and the author of the story, Ivan, believe that Christ should have traded free will and a choice in whether or not to worship God for a comfortable life. It's Ivan's struggle to reconcile an "uncaring" God<ref> “Listen: if everyone must suffer, in order to buy eternal harmony with their suffering, pray tell me what have children got to do with it? It’s quite incomprehensible why they should have to suffer, and why they should buy harmony with their suffering.”</ref> and the alternative atheism, which he believes would lead to a world where morals don't matter since heaven and hell don't matter, and don't act as a deterrent<ref> "If God does not exist, then everything is permissible," so his father's behavior would have been allowed.</ref>. His solution is that the Church should rule the world; Christ did not allow this, ergo he sinned and the Grand Inquisitor yells at him for it.
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'': Probably one of the most iconic. The scene where O'Brien tortures Winston in Room 101 and tells him the skinny about how the Party controls the populace, and where it is going in the future. Part of this talk also takes place too, however, through Goldstein's book.
{{quote| ''If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.''}}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Roj Blake's dressing-down in the first episode of ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]''.
* The ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode ''The Obsolete Man'', depicts a future dystopian society where a librarian named Wordsworth, played by Burgess Meredith, is sentenced to death by the chancellor (Fritz Weaver) for being "obsolete". He asks to have the chancellor visit him just before he is about to die, the method of which he is able to choose. They debate the morality of a society where a person's right to live is determined by their worth to the state. Wordsworth then reveals {{spoiler|that they are being televised, and he has chosen to die by having the now locked room set to explode at midnight. After a while, the chancellor begs Wordsworth in the "name of God" to let him go. He does just before the room explodes. The chancellor now is condemned himself for showing cowardice and deemed "obsolete" by the same court he previously presided over.}}
 
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