Endless Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten…

— James H. Billington

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

— George W. Bush

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and…

— C. Vann Woodward

I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step…

— Liu Xia

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very…

— Ron Paul

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

— John F. Kennedy

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“if we adopted a different orientation toward the world, one that focused on liberation and freedom rather than manipulation and control, it would literally…

— Joseph Heath

“For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of the majority…

— Bertrand Russell

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan

“The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on the project of co-research aimed at making…

— Michael Hardt

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

— Nandan Nilekani