Freedom Of Thought Quotes

"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief." "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" "The most powerful prison is the one in your mind" "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." "The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free" "I don't believe there is a powerful and mysterious 'popular will', a common will that expresses itself inexorably in spite of repression." "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 or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." "What is reprehensible is people who... tell you there are limits and that you can't do this or that. These are the people who when you say you can think freely, say it's only thinkable up to a certain point."