Freedom-of-thought Quotes

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons ...

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice...

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one t...

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to impr...

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own i...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but ...

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secul...

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secul...

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one ...

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but li...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the ce...

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to b...

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no ...

Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought...

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not a...

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American be...

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one anothe...

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual r...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and great...

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and sil...

Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of...

Wouldn’t be very fair to the rest of them, would it?” Harper asked. “They’re not bad people, most of...

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they ...

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.