Quotes About Freedom

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.