Quote by Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom

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

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Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – Buckminster Fuller, 1972

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. – Luther Burbank

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