113 Quotes About Free-thinking

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH WAR TO REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF PEACE.

Swimming against the current is the true embodiment of freedom.

Talking reason with a fundamentalist is like talking balanced diet with a hungry tiger - you can't win.

The prophylactic for culturally transmitted diseases is free thinking

Popularity is not an evidence of authenticity.

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

It's very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they're ineffective, they can't defend themselves against indoctrination, they can't even figure out what they think.

I need to get people to question what they think they know, who they think they are, and what they believe to be absolute truth, what they think is real and not real. I need to get people to freethink. I have to. Because this is the answer, this is the way.

All our current media concerns have in French the suffix '-aire': identitaire (issues of identity), sanitaire (health concerns), securitaire ('law and order'), humanitaire (humanitarianism). The whole lot being publicitaire (promotional). There is in this suffix something which quite aptly characterizes our culture as funerarium of received ideas and single-track thinking.