Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I was ready to talk about... and I'm ready to die on the hills of due process, individualism, and free thought. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. — Homer Copy Share Image
Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I think the trend to control speech - and therefore thought - continues. Because of the freer flow of information now, there's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“It's very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they're ineffective, they can't defend themselves… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and… — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I want to find my golden joy," I said. The baron laughed loudly. "Splendid," he said. "But what does that mean to… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If only you become free, then you, my dear sister or brother, will give a truly liberated family environment to your child,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“We should note that almost every technological transformation of consequence has taken place under Western auspices—if not Western in the strict geographical… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out.… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“ Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.” — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image
If weapons formed stand in front of me when ever I fell trap you said that you would be the one to… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
“I soon learned that thought was not free in North Korea. A free thought could get you killed if it slipped out.” — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise; Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games; Words to dance our… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances,… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Spain was also determined to stamp out any free thought or intellectual activity that might challenge Catholicism. With this aim, books were… — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
