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Intellectual freedom Quotes

"You don't have to burn books to destroy culture."

"The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world"

"And this I believe that the free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world"

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned"

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind"

"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind"

"The death of dogma is the birth of morality"

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them"

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture."

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

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