Free thinker Quote by Franz Mehring

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

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

— Franz Grillparzer

“And though it would never be publicly admitted, they must also be brainwashed to adopt his ideology. Pure by blood, stripped of free will,…

— Joshua Levine

The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions…

— Hans Morgenthau

“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

“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for…

— G.K. Chesterton

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

— Stefan Heym

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another…

— Calvin Coolidge

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time…

— Erich Fromm

“Bismarck defined political intuition as the ability to hear, before anybody else, “the distant hoofbeats of history.”

— Michael Dobbs

“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

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold…

— Thomas Jefferson