282 Quotes About Freedom-of-thought

The great suffering caused by lack of freedom of thought is nothing compared to that caused by lack of freedom from thought.

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.

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

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.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.

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 defeat us."[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.

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

The mind creates complexity until it enters the heart.