The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will… — Thomas Klestil Copy Share Image
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin 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
“the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
“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
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in… — Marjane Satrapi 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly… But the scene is changed… — Edmund Burke 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
Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter… — Marilyn Ferguson 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
“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he… — Anonymous 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
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“At an 1870 Anti-Slavery Society convention, Frederick Douglass proclaimed, 'I bow to no priests either of faith or of unfaith. I claim… — Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars Copy Share Image
“FIRST AMENDMENT No one shall give a damn about your religion. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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