Quotes About Freethought

#1. Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

Luther Burbank

#2. Our constitutional ban on religious tests for public office is worth less to the non-religious than the sheepskin parchment it was written on was worth to the sheep.

Unknown

#3. The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

Natalie Portman

#5. Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Euripides

#6. There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

Dan Barker

#7. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.

Maajid Nawaz

#10. Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.

Erik Paulsen

#11. Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

Dan Barker

#12. Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness.

Sherrie Krantz

#13. Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

Emile M. Cioran

#14. People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. To argue with reality is to argue with God

Byron Katie

#16. Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference.

Jack David Eller

#17. Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#18. My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#19. Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Fred Whitehead