Quotes on Intellectual Freedom

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.