Intellectual Freedom Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to…
— Albert Einstein
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Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
— Franz Boas
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Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.…
— Andrei Sakharov
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The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right…
— Norman Mailer
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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
— Virginia Woolf
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there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to…
— Stephen King
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Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so…
— Philip Pullman
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Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
— Andrei Sakharov
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In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle…
— Salman Rushdie
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort.…
— Ma Jian
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society -…
— Nancy Pearcey
Who Wrote These Intellectual Freedom Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Intellectual Freedom Quotes as follows: