Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

— Laurence Sterne

And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise,…

— George Seldes

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every…

— Fakeer Ishavardas

“Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God… On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi…

— Edward Royle

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall…

— Anonymous

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who reached freethought…

— Leo Tolstoy

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,…

— Leo Tolstoy

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened…

— Adolf Hitler

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful…

— Shannon L. Alder

“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns, which generated…

— Susan Jacoby

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,…

— Leo Tolstoy