To be able to think freely, a ...

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
 Ernest Renan

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
 Ernest Renan
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .
 Ernest Renan
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
 Ernest Renan
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
 Ernest Renan