Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanTags: lies freedom alternative-facts free-speech freedom-of-thought lies-politics
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]
Tags: democracy america censorship freedom-of-thought marketplace-of-ideas media news openness secrecy truthfulness values
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
Joseph HellerTags: freedom freedom-of-thought criticism independence
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."
[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]
Tags: liberty freedom democracy freedom-of-thought first-amendment freedom-of-speech
Dare to think for yourself.
VoltaireTags: freedom-of-thought
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert EinsteinTags: dissent freedom-of-thought skepticism independent-thought
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. TallentyreTags: freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech disagreement evelyn-beatrice-hall misattributed-to-voltaire
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 RussellTags: intelligence strength freedom courage thought freedom-of-thought independence fearlessness defiance free-thinker
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Tags: freedom-of-thought self-reliance independent-thought song-lyrics
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn RandTags: politics philosophy freedom-of-thought rights
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