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“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

— Laurence Sterne

If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the bible to…

— Etta Semple

“When the old Liberals removed the gags from all the heresies, their idea was that religious and philosophical discoveries might thus be made. Their…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know…

— Thomas Mann

“In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former days the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as…

— Etta Semple

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

— Tom Stoppard

“The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and the meanest…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought…

— Leo Tolstoy