Ancestor Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

— Charles M. Schulz

People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

— Laurence Sterne

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

— Ben Elton

“It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every…

— Fakeer Ishavardas

“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

For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while…

— Lucy Dacus

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

— Jonathan Swift

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

— Gerhard Richter