282 Quotes About Freedom-of-thought

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!

You want to fly, I say break your chains first.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Expand my sisters and brothers - expand your hearts – expand your minds - expand your horizons beyond the wildest imaginations of your traditions - and the whole world will become your home.

Liberation is indeed one and only one of the essence, of this world.