Intellectual Freedom Quotes

Intellectual Freedom Quote of the day

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse