Quotes on Freedom Of Thought

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 in itself

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.