Bells Quote by Joost Meerloo

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

— Simone Weil

In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.”

— Azar Nafisi

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

— Emile Durkheim

“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or herself to…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Doubt with regard to what we ought to know is a condition too violent for the human mind; it cannot long be endured; in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge...”

— Pedro Noguera

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

— Alison Goodman

“Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.”

— Olli Jalonen

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

— Susie Bright

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are…

— Jerome Frank