There shall be no slavery of the mind.

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

— Rajneesh

It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

— Arthur Koestler

“For Marius to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. Hard years, and difficult ones; those to get through, these to climb. Marius…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

— Thomas Jefferson

The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is…

— Barbara Smoker

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…

— James Madison

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…

— Denis Diderot

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

— Paul Kurtz

You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

— Antony Flew

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage