Quotes on Free Thinkers

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

All religions have been made by men.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.