Quotes with free-thought

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  • Jean Cocteau The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aristotle The law is reason, free from passion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
    Source:  (2005)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Buddy DeSylva The moon belongs to everyone;
    The best things in life are free.
    The stars belong to everyone;
    They gleam there for you and me.
    Source: Song: The Best Things in Life are Free
    Buddy DeSylva
    American songwriter and film producer (1895 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Anna C. Brackett The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Lord Acton The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Sigmund Freud The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Daniel Webster The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Socrates The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Martin Luther King The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Brooke Shields The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Albert Camus The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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