Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 371 Free Thought quotesFree Thought QuotesFree Thought Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Every attempt to gag the free expression of thought is an unsocial act against society. That is why judges and juries who try to enforce such laws make themselves ridiculous.~ Jay Fox The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.~ Felix Frankfurter The last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.~ Viktor Frankl Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to chose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.~ Viktor Frankl Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.~ Robert Frost English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.~ James Anthony Froude I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.~ Margaret Fuller Curiosity is the kernal of forbidden fruit.~ Dr. Thomas Fuller I do encourage you to question authority, apply logic, and think for yourself. Look at the forest, not the trees. And the centuries, not the months. Or you might risk being lead willingly, as a sheep, to the slaughter.~ Rick Gaber These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.~ John Kenneth Galbraith The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.~ John Kenneth Galbraith The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Honest differences are a healthy sign of progress.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.~ Helen H. Gardner I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.~ James A. Garfield If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.~ Khalil Gibran Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.~ Khalil Gibran Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.~ Josiah William Gitt A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.~ Jo Godwin Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.~ William Godwin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print