Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
“Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more… — Abdullah Saeed Copy Share Image
“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“For they amount to this: that if we are to produce a society of educated people, fitted to preserve their intellectual freedom… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“When we, in the communist countries, came across the ideas of Hayek and Aron, we had no problems to understand their importance.… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in… — David Kelley Copy Share Image
