Freethought Today Quotes & Sayings

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here. — Bruce Springsteen

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults. — Pete Docter

The Holy Spirit is God. The Holy Spirit lives in me. — Charles F. Stanley

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can. — Aung San Suu Kyi

It doesn't matter what a person is born but it matters how he grows up to be... — J.K. Rowling

To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I always had that bond whether I knew it or not. — Julene Bair

As is true in many families where children create enormously upsetting diversions from core family secrets, Elana's family fixed on her behavior as further proof that the secret should remain buried. When behavior is truly a distraction for the unspeakable, therapist after therapist may be brought in, each attempting to intervene at the wrong level, mistakenly addressing such signals at the biological, behavioral, intrapsychic, or interpersonal level, while completely missing the unimaginable maze of secrecy in which such actions are embedded. — Evan Imber-Black

Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers. — Annalee Newitz

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish. — Winston Churchill

It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep. — Stephen King

Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk

In the aftermath of our errors, our first task is always to establish their scope and nature. — Kathryn Schulz