Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason – refuted, or...

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity…when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth.

Worldly possessions didn’t matter much to him, but his freedom did. He could come and go as he pleased, with nothing more than the backpack underneath his seat. It was a simple existence for a...

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must...

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Let your eyes see what they see, not what others want you to see. Let your ears hear what they naturally hear, not what others want you to hear. Let your mouth speak your mind...

Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies — the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe....

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

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}

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better...

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.

Your choices are your only freedom.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their...

[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.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.

The measure of man’s ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.

Those who have suffered in the hands of others,know what it is to be free.

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”.

I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

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.

Thought is free.

There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision,...

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

All thoughts are beautiful when they’re free.

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

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.”(Almansor)

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in...

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.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

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...

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all....

We’re not mindless golems, designed to think exactly the same thing. To try to suppress those thoughts is no better than slavery, and being free to say what you want, write what you want or...

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public...

A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.

The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think; and our intentions govern what we think.

There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.