Ali Fazal Quotes

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

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

I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.

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.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

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.

What a man thinks is of no concern to government.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

The strength of this nation is weakened more by those who suppress the freedom of others than by those who are allowed freely to think and act as their consciences dictate.

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.

We have the right to be idiots.

My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

There should be no hindrance to what we want to do, what we want to wear, what we think and how we want to travel. Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law.

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

Our thoughts are free.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

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

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

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.

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.

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