Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

You must avoid letting anyone usurp your freedom of thought in any way, whether on religious or other grounds. People must use their minds and think and there are situations where the use of the intellect is necessary so that excessive fantasy or fancy can be held in check.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Our thoughts are free.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

Advocacy and belief go hand in hand. For there can be no true freedom of mind if thoughts are secure only when they are pent up.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

I require no bayonets to defend the liberty of my thoughts.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

Running away will never make you free.