Charles Jean Barbaroux Quotes

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Do not allow the Church or the State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment.

By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

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

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

You can't censor people's dreams.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.

I just think people should be able to express themselves.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

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.