{"quotes":[{"text":"Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinkers","free-thinking","free-thinking-abilities","free-thinking","life-philosophy","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","rational","rational-spirituality","rational-thought","rationality","religion","religious-beliefs","religious-extremism","religious-violence","scripture","wisdom","wisdom","wise"],"id":39734,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It is impossible to understand how millions and millions of people all obey a sickly collection of gentlemen that call themselves 'Government!' The word, I expect, frightens people. It is a form of planetary hypnosis, and very unhealthy.'It has been going on for years,' I said. 'And it only occurred to relatively few to disobey and make what they call revolutions. If they won their revolutions, which they occasionally did, they made more governments, sometimes more cruel and stupid than the last.'Men are very difficult to understand,' said Carmella. 'Let's hope they all freeze to death. I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for themselves, instead of always being told what to do and think by advertisements, cinemas, policemen, and parliaments.","author":"Leonora Carrington","tags":["anarchy","free-thinkers","independent-thought","politics","revolution"],"id":76573,"author_id":"Leonora+Carrington"},{"text":"You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","free-thinkers","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspirational","philosophy","philosophy-of-mind","philosophy","rational-thinking","rational-thought","rationality","secular-humanism","secular-humanist"],"id":77145,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn't consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for change.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activism","activist","blessings","causes","change","debate","difference","different","divergent","free-thinkers","freedom","global-change","good","integrity","life","open-mindedness","perspectives","right","soical-change","solutions","standing-up-for-what-is-right","unique","voices"],"id":81896,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["artist","creative","free-thinkers","insanity","maddness","out-side-the-box"],"id":236724,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ity","ity","bad-leadership","conditioning","corrupt","corruption","culture","deception","deceptive","decieve","dirty-politics","fabrications","fiction","follow","follow-your-own-path","fraud-and-conspiracy","free-thinkers","free-will","herd","herd-mentality","illusion","illusions","individuals","individuals","lies","lying","majority","majority-view","mankind","mass-culture","mass-media","masses","media","misguide","mislead","morality","people","philosophy","politics","pop-culture","popular","popularity","programming","question-ity","question-everything","right","right-and-wrong","sheep","social-problem","society","society-and-culture","think","thinking","training","truth","war","wrong","youth"],"id":276467,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"When you move to a new environment with cultural and social characteristics different from your own, it is only logical, that you loosen some of the knots of your religious doctrines, to embrace the new and vivid environment as much as you wish to be embraced by the environment.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","dogmas","free-thinkers","fundamentalism","humanity","life-lessons","religious-beliefs","religious-diversity","religious-extremism","religious-freedom","religious-tolerance","religious-violence"],"id":285756,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touch something else and now you’ve left traces of it. Hide it under your shirt and it bleeds through.","author":"Thomas Lloyd Qualls","tags":["artists","free-thinkers","freedom-of-thought","thinking","thoughts","troublemakers"],"id":293220,"author_id":"Thomas+Lloyd+Qualls"},{"text":"You can repeat lies of others without hesitationBecause, you don’t have to give justification But, saying truth you have to be fearless and courageousBecause, you have to defend your viewsYou can not say truth without hurting sentiments of many people.","author":"Sammy Toora","tags":["atheist","courage","fearless","free-thinkers","lies","people","religion","sentiments","truth","view"],"id":400599,"author_id":"Sammy+Toora"},{"text":"The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activists","beautiful-minds","beauty","change","enviornment","for-the-oceans","free-thinkers","god-s-speed","ideas","leaders","legacy","life-plans","life-purposes","out-of-the-box","passionate-people","paul-watson","perspectives","sea-shepherd","social-change","standing-for-something","storms","visionaries","voices-of-time","warriors","words","world-causes"],"id":410760,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}