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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
— Tacitus
Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four.
— George Orwell
The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.
— Melody Carstairs
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
— Ramana Maharshi
The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.
— Eliot Engel
The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.
— Gillian Cross
The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.
— Auliq Ice
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
— Ayn Rand
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.
— Ayn Rand
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
— Mark Twain
When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
— Auliq Ice
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
— John Milton
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
— Alexander Pope
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
— Joseph Heller
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
— Alice Walker
No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.
— Tiffany Madison
There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.
— E'yen A. Gardner
Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.
— Charles F. Glassman
Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.
— Tiffany Madison
Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
— John Steinbeck
Freedom had a thousand faces. But so did crime. The thought of what a man might do made me dizzy.
— Carsten Jensen
The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.
— Jonathan Glover
If she gave up, let them capture her again, they would provide light, or at least food. But the thought of trading freedom for life was repulsive.
— Christie Valentine Powell
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
— Bertrand Russell
She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.
— Patricia Highsmith
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.
— Charles Darwin
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
— Albert Einstein
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
— Charles De Gaulle
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!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The constructs of organized thought are all around us, the golden age will come when they are freed.
— Tom Althouse
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
— George Soros
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
— Kierkegaard Research Centre
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
— Salman Rushdie
Love and Freedom of Thoughts is a fast-acting antidote against the misanthropic cold sword of mass surveillance.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
— Raquel Cepeda
The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.
— Bryant McGill
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] — John F. Kennedy
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] — John F. Kennedy
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
— Rudolf Steiner
Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.
— David Simon
The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.
— Auliq Ice
The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father} — Richard Mc Sweeney
{Source: A Green Desert Father} — Richard Mc Sweeney
I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;
I recognize it's time to mount a different horse. — Mie Hansson
I recognize it's time to mount a different horse. — Mie Hansson
[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
— John Locke
They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
— Will Cuppy
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
— Rivera Sun
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
— Anne Lamott
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?
— Rob Kampia
If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.
— Flemming Rose
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
— James Baldwin
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
— Emma Goldman
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
— Alan Cohen
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
— Scott Howard Phillips
Any country where there is no freedom of speech is no more than a Kingdom of Animals where only the powerful speaks!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
— J. B. Bury
Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest ... She was free, for love liberates.
— Paulo Coelho
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
— S.G. Tallentyre
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,
namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought. — Julia Ward Howe
namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought. — Julia Ward Howe
The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men.
— R. Alan Woods
Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
— Jess C. Scott
Those who have suffered in the hands of others,know what it is to be free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
— Baron D'Holbach