“Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
“The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see... — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. — Kierkegaard Research Centre Copy Share Image
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
“Love and Freedom of Thoughts is a fast-acting antidote against the misanthropic cold sword of mass surveillance.” — sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,… — United Nations Copy Share Image
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There was only one trial of Galileo, and yet it seems there were a thousand—the suppression of science by religion, the defense… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
“Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.” — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.” — John Bagnell Bury Copy Share Image
“ Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein . None are more hopelessly enslaved than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates. — Pervez Musharraf Copy Share Image
I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference; Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“I noticed something peculiar when thinking about freedom. Everyone wants it but less are willing to extend the same freedoms to everyone.… — C.A.A. Savastano Copy Share Image
“Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace… — André Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
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