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    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
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    Bob Marley
    “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
    None but ourselves can free our minds.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, self-reliance, song-lyrics
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    Ayn Rand
    “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: freedom-of-thought, philosophy, politics, rights
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    Albert Einstein
    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, skepticism
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    George Carlin
    “I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, humor, patriotism
    1432 likes

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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
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    Bertrand Russell
    “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 habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
    tags: courage, defiance, fearlessness, free-thinker, freedom, freedom-of-thought, independence, intelligence, strength, thought
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    Jess C. Scott
    “Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, honest, honesty, hypocrite, hypocrites, liars, straightforwardness, truth
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    Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
    ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    tags: alternative-facts, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-thought, lies, lies-politics
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “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 libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

    [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: banned-books, bill-of-rights, books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, liberty, libraries
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    James Madison
    “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
    ― James Madison
    tags: authority, constitution, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, politics
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    Ray Bradbury
    “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 they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: freedom-of-thought, information, news, philosophy
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    William Shakespeare
    “Thought is free.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-thought, thought
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    “Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”
    ― Margaret A. Edwards
    tags: censor, censoring, censors, censorship, freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-express, love, love-story, lover, lovers, lovers-fictional, minors-rights, rite-of-passage, rites-of-passage, teen, teen-fantasy, teen-fiction, teenage-love, teenagers, teenagers-and-parents, teens, young-adult, young-adult-fantasy, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-readers, young-adult-romance, young-adult-urban-fantasy, young-love, young-lovers
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    Criss Jami
    “Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: absolutes, beliefs, beware, brainwashed, conviction, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, open-mindedness, opinions, permission, stand-up, truth
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    “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.”
    ― Flemming Rose
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-religion, freedom-of-thought, religion, religious-tolerance
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    Salman Rushdie
    “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."

    [Defend the right to be offended (openDemocracy, 7 February 2005)]”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: censorship, criticism, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, immunity, liberty, sacrosanct-ideas
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    Iain Pears
    “Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.”
    ― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
    tags: argument, blind-faith, disagreement, discussion, doctrine, faith, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, jews, judaism, religion, shouting
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    Chris Hedges
    “It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.”
    ― Chris Hedges, The Death of the Liberal Class
    tags: academia, corporatism, freedom-of-thought
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “no people can be both ignorant and free.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
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  • #21
    Ian Mackaye
    “I don't smoke, don't drink, don't fuck. At least i can fucking think.”
    ― Ian Mackaye
    tags: abstention, freedom-of-thought
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: bravery, censorship, courage, critical-thinking, debate, discussions, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, knowledge, objectivism, pc, philosophy, political-correctness, psychology, rationality, relationships, safe-space, self-knowledge, sick, society, trigger, trigger-warning
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: critical-thinker, critical-thinking, democracy, education, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-the-press, freedom-of-thought, independence-of-thought, independent-thinking, independent-thought, indocrination, liberation, mental-slavery, slavery
    87 likes

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    Banani Ray
    “Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.”
    ― Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru
    tags: freedom, freedom-fighter, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-religion, freedom-of-thought, freedom-quotes, god-love, love, peace, religion, religion-and-philoshophy, religion-and-philosophy, religion-christianity, religion-spirituality, spiritual, spirituality, worship
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    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “Any country where there is no freedom of speech is no more than a Kingdom of Animals where only the powerful speaks!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, kingdom-of-animals, murat-ildan-quotations, powerful, speech-quote, speech-quotes
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    Joel T. McGrath
    “Contention murders creativity and stupidity is in enmity with freethinking.”
    ― Joel T. McGrath
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    “It all starts with suppression of a few freedoms and before you know it, you can't speak with out permission from the authorities. And then finally you wake up and you know what? It is too late.”
    ― Allan Amanyire
    tags: freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought
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    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
    tags: author, author-quotes, bangambiki, book, book-lovers, book-quote, book-quotes, books, censorship, censorship-freedom-books
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  • #30
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-thought
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    Debasish Mridha
    “A thinker can truly think only when there is true freedom of thought.”
    ― Debasish Mridha
    tags: debasish-mridha, debasish-mridha-m-d, freedom-of-thought, inspirational, philosophy, quotes, thinker, true-freedom-of-thought
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