Freedom Of Thought Quotes

Freedom Of Thought Quote of the day

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Thought is free.

A thinker can truly think only when there is true freedom of thought.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea