Right To Think Quotes

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

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

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Men are free and claim the right to think for themselves in religious as well as political matters.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

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

I flatter myself [that we] have in this country [Virginia] extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

I was a Socialist for two weeks but when a couple of Socialists assured me I had no right to think differently from any other Socialist and then quarreled with each other about what Socialism meant, I ran away.

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

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

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

I don't think it's right to think ahead to free agency.

The Web's core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

The greatest single blessing enjoyed by the people of these United States is the right of conscience -- the right to think, and to say and write what one thinks. I admit of no limitation of that right.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

If you do get into the Senate, don't get the Presidential mania. It makes mad every man who is at all prominent at Washington either in the House or Senate. Scores of men, usually sound and sensible, fancy they can be President, who has no more right to think so than the autocrat of Russia. I have no knowledge of any tolerably conspicuous politician at Washington whose career is not colored and marred by his ambition to be President. I say this in all seriousness. It makes fools of all sorts from [Daniel] Webster and Lewis Campbell.

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.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We want the people, in their private lives, to be completely free, and in today's world, having access to information and the right of free dialogue and the right to think freely is the right of all peoples, including the people of Iran.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.