Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they…

Religion is the pious worship of God.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he…

— Iain Pears

If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would…

— William Winwood Reade

“I never cease to be amazed at how common groupthink is among today's populace.”

— Colin M. McGroarty

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

— Anonymous

Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling,…

— Rudolf Rocker

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”

— Banksy

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

— Emma Goldman

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

— Ann Aguirre

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

— Sue Grafton

“Life demands more thinking than remembering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming…

— Slavoj Žižek

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that…

— Bob Proctor

“Everybody goes where everybody goes.”

— Thomas Vato