Freethinker Quotes

#1. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

Chapman Cohen

#2. When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

Justin Villanueva

#3. Ideas were found by the freethinker,
expressed by poet with the new words,
formulated by scholar into knowledge.

Toba Beta

#4. Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics); my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.

John Rafferty

#5. I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post - for physical support only.

Tai Solarin

#7. A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Augustus William Hare

#8. What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

William Winwood Reade

#9. But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

Mikhail Bakunin

#10. A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.

Justin Villanueva

#12. She looks out the window at Reno, which looks like Vegas and yet also looks nothing like Vegas. It's lesser, smaller, worse.

Caroline Kepnes

#13. Not that I don't think you're totally hot when you're dripping with sweat.

Amy Plum

#14. He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and self-indulgent exploration, a means of makings sense of the past years, part catharsis, part comforting affirmation.

P.D. James

#15. What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Cormac McCarthy

#17. I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings.
Linda Strong

Vicki M. Taylor

#18. The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth ... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

Herbert Spencer

#19. [George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Clarence Darrow

#20. The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.

Cormac McCarthy

#21. Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Laurence Sterne

#22. Even so tiny a loss has the power to still feel like a loss.

Jonathan Goldstein

#23. Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#24. The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.

Theodore Schroeder

#25. To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction ... to drive the fiend of fear from the mind ... is the task of the Freethinker.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#26. When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Shane Smith

#27. I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." I would add to that, "All the same, Sir, I'm not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

Annie Besant

#30. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox