Freethinker Quotes

24 quotes by 19 authors

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -… — Annie Besant
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual… — Albert Einstein
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be… — Dan Barker
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is… — Robert Green Ingersoll
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at… — Julia Sweeney
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism,… — Theodore Schroeder
Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. — Laurence Sterne
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. — George Bernard Shaw
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… — George Seldes
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a… — Leo Tolstoy
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? — William Winwood Reade
Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. — Augustus William Hare
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of… — Jack Kerouac
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,… — Leo Tolstoy
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and… — Mikhail Bakunin
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. — Cormac McCarthy

Who Wrote These Freethinker Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 24 Freethinker Quotes as follows: