My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where people wait for the Media to tell them who they are, and what they should be… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Books can look dangerous or precious, depending on which side you're looking from, from office or from the streets.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“To the freethinker, change is anticipated, and something to be embraced. To change our mind is our greatest strength, as it has… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“From a logical point of view, anyone who sets out to create a Great Civilization ought to begin with people, with training… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace… — Leilani Bishop Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers.… — George Seldes Copy Share Image
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
“Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain… — Justin Villanueva Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information."… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm enough of an independent loner, that staying in a group's good graces is not always my first priority. I'm not a… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same… — Justin Villanueva Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking - an empty attic is a primate's olympus.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I hate the whole Liberal mindset. It makes me nauseous and fearful for my child. I have nightmares about her being trampled… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“To be able to think freely isn't a crime, it's a gift. A real privilege; one not enjoyed by a vast majority… — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“You are not going to heaven if you do good, you are not going to hell if you do evil, you'll simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer… — David Marshall Brooks Copy Share Image
![“And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived…” quote by George Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6bb/george-seldes-50433_association_and-so-my-brother-gilbert-and-i-brought_2435326.jpg)
![“This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b5/christopher-hitchens-117_abolition_this-huge-and-terrible-industry-the-slav_2271791.jpg)
![“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/375/thomas-jefferson-43_faith_n-regard-to-jesus-believing-himself-insp_319513.jpg)
