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.

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.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free… 🙂 and humans will see…

I know the difference between reality and fantasy. Those with sick fantasies who know and respect this difference are much less dangerous than those with no fantasies at all, but who can’t tell the difference...

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...

Libraries should be open to all – except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

No matter what they say, we aren’t free if we can’t make our own choices.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

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

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I don’t have a diary, I don’t write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun’s rays and everything I have...

So long as you believe yourself to be ‘only human’ you have accepted life in a prison cell whose door remains locked only by your own mind.By saying, ‘well, I’m only human’, you have blindly...

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don’t even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

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...

An editor doesn’t just read, he reads well, and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and it frightened them. Mesopotamian society, for instance, did not want great reading from its...

The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value...

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Free your mind from the prison of your past. Time has allowed you to grow and develop into the person you’re meant to be. Now, you are living a purposed filled life.

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by...

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And...

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.

I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through...

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...

La liberté de l’esprit est le seul bien, peut-être, qui soit plus précieux que la paix. C’est que la paix, sans elle, n’est que servitude.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

If you try to tame her she will fly away, because pretty little spirits like her, never like to be caged.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable...

Free yourself from any emotional trauma. Dwell on positive thoughts, the strength for your soul.

Your silent rebellion is unstoppable.