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  1. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and of conscience, and is irremediably stained by private and selfish considerations.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #freethought #freedomofconscience #freedomofthought #loyalty #onetrueway #orthodoxy #selfcenteredness #selfishness

  2. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and of conscience, and is irremediably stained by private and selfish considerations.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #freethought #freedomofconscience #freedomofthought #loyalty #onetrueway #orthodoxy #selfcenteredness #selfishness

  3. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and of conscience, and is irremediably stained by private and selfish considerations.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #freethought #freedomofconscience #freedomofthought #loyalty #onetrueway #orthodoxy #selfcenteredness #selfishness

  4. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and of conscience, and is irremediably stained by private and selfish considerations.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #freethought #freedomofconscience #freedomofthought #loyalty #onetrueway #orthodoxy #selfcenteredness #selfishness

  5. A quotation from Henry Commager

    The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and of conscience, and is irremediably stained by private and selfish considerations.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #conformity #freethought #freedomofconscience #freedomofthought #loyalty #onetrueway #orthodoxy #selfcenteredness #selfishness

  6. I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
    -- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Bullies #CivilLiberties #FreeThought #Libraries

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

  7. I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
    -- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Bullies #CivilLiberties #FreeThought #Libraries

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

  8. I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
    -- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Bullies #CivilLiberties #FreeThought #Libraries

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

  9. I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
    -- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Bullies #CivilLiberties #FreeThought #Libraries

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

  10. I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
    -- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Bullies #CivilLiberties #FreeThought #Libraries

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

  11. Washington never once called Jesus divine in public. That wasn't evasion — it was deism. And deism was the founding framework of American freethought, per @bledewitz.bsky.social.

    onlys.ky/deist-roots-of-freeth

    #Freethought #Secularism #Deism #ChurchAndState #AmericanHistory

  12. Washington never once called Jesus divine in public. That wasn't evasion — it was deism. And deism was the founding framework of American freethought, per @bledewitz.bsky.social.

    onlys.ky/deist-roots-of-freeth

    #Freethought #Secularism #Deism #ChurchAndState #AmericanHistory

  13. Washington never once called Jesus divine in public. That wasn't evasion — it was deism. And deism was the founding framework of American freethought, per @bledewitz.bsky.social.

    onlys.ky/deist-roots-of-freeth

    #Freethought #Secularism #Deism #ChurchAndState #AmericanHistory

  14. Washington never once called Jesus divine in public. That wasn't evasion — it was deism. And deism was the founding framework of American freethought, per @bledewitz.bsky.social.

    onlys.ky/deist-roots-of-freeth

    #Freethought #Secularism #Deism #ChurchAndState #AmericanHistory

  15. Washington never once called Jesus divine in public. That wasn't evasion — it was deism. And deism was the founding framework of American freethought, per @bledewitz.bsky.social.

    onlys.ky/deist-roots-of-freeth

    #Freethought #Secularism #Deism #ChurchAndState #AmericanHistory

  16. 📜 HERESY REBORN: Apparently, we’ve teleported back to the Middle Ages, where the real career hazards are no longer crime or marriage, but the unthinkable act of having an unpopular opinion. 🤯 Ah yes, the modern workplace, where the gallows for free thought are hidden behind trendy open floor plans and beanbag chairs. 💼🔮
    paulgraham.com/heresy.html #HeresyReborn #MiddleAges #WorkplaceCulture #FreeThought #CareerHazards #UnpopularOpinion #HackerNews #ngated

  17. 📜 HERESY REBORN: Apparently, we’ve teleported back to the Middle Ages, where the real career hazards are no longer crime or marriage, but the unthinkable act of having an unpopular opinion. 🤯 Ah yes, the modern workplace, where the gallows for free thought are hidden behind trendy open floor plans and beanbag chairs. 💼🔮
    paulgraham.com/heresy.html #HeresyReborn #MiddleAges #WorkplaceCulture #FreeThought #CareerHazards #UnpopularOpinion #HackerNews #ngated

  18. 📜 HERESY REBORN: Apparently, we’ve teleported back to the Middle Ages, where the real career hazards are no longer crime or marriage, but the unthinkable act of having an unpopular opinion. 🤯 Ah yes, the modern workplace, where the gallows for free thought are hidden behind trendy open floor plans and beanbag chairs. 💼🔮
    paulgraham.com/heresy.html #HeresyReborn #MiddleAges #WorkplaceCulture #FreeThought #CareerHazards #UnpopularOpinion #HackerNews #ngated

  19. 📜 HERESY REBORN: Apparently, we’ve teleported back to the Middle Ages, where the real career hazards are no longer crime or marriage, but the unthinkable act of having an unpopular opinion. 🤯 Ah yes, the modern workplace, where the gallows for free thought are hidden behind trendy open floor plans and beanbag chairs. 💼🔮
    paulgraham.com/heresy.html #HeresyReborn #MiddleAges #WorkplaceCulture #FreeThought #CareerHazards #UnpopularOpinion #HackerNews #ngated

  20. 📜 HERESY REBORN: Apparently, we’ve teleported back to the Middle Ages, where the real career hazards are no longer crime or marriage, but the unthinkable act of having an unpopular opinion. 🤯 Ah yes, the modern workplace, where the gallows for free thought are hidden behind trendy open floor plans and beanbag chairs. 💼🔮
    paulgraham.com/heresy.html #HeresyReborn #MiddleAges #WorkplaceCulture #FreeThought #CareerHazards #UnpopularOpinion #HackerNews #ngated

  21. A quotation from E. B. White

    When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

    E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
    Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

    More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #artist #censorship #control #freethought #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #liberty #tyranny #writer

  22. A quotation from E. B. White

    When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

    E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
    Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

    More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #artist #censorship #control #freethought #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #liberty #tyranny #writer

  23. A quotation from E. B. White

    When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

    E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
    Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

    More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #artist #censorship #control #freethought #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #liberty #tyranny #writer

  24. A quotation from E. B. White

    When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

    E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
    Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

    More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #artist #censorship #control #freethought #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #liberty #tyranny #writer

  25. A quotation from E. B. White

    When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

    E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
    Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

    More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #artist #censorship #control #freethought #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #liberty #tyranny #writer

  26. "Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship."

    Andrei Sakharov

    #quoteoftheday #Freedom #FreeThought #ConspiracyTheories #Dictators

  27. "Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship."

    Andrei Sakharov

    #quoteoftheday #Freedom #FreeThought #ConspiracyTheories #Dictators

  28. "Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship."

    Andrei Sakharov

    #quoteoftheday #Freedom #FreeThought #ConspiracyTheories #Dictators

  29. "Freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship."

    Andrei Sakharov

    #quoteoftheday #Freedom #FreeThought #ConspiracyTheories #Dictators

  30. Most secular reading lists are just 'have you tried Hitchens?' This one actually expands the frame — 10 books that survived the DNF pile.

    onlys.ky/10-eye-opening-secula

    #SecularHumanism #Books #Freethought #ReadingList #Atheism

  31. Most secular reading lists are just 'have you tried Hitchens?' This one actually expands the frame — 10 books that survived the DNF pile.

    onlys.ky/10-eye-opening-secula

    #SecularHumanism #Books #Freethought #ReadingList #Atheism

  32. Most secular reading lists are just 'have you tried Hitchens?' This one actually expands the frame — 10 books that survived the DNF pile.

    onlys.ky/10-eye-opening-secula

    #SecularHumanism #Books #Freethought #ReadingList #Atheism

  33. Most secular reading lists are just 'have you tried Hitchens?' This one actually expands the frame — 10 books that survived the DNF pile.

    onlys.ky/10-eye-opening-secula

    #SecularHumanism #Books #Freethought #ReadingList #Atheism

  34. Most secular reading lists are just 'have you tried Hitchens?' This one actually expands the frame — 10 books that survived the DNF pile.

    onlys.ky/10-eye-opening-secula

    #SecularHumanism #Books #Freethought #ReadingList #Atheism

  35. Top ten posts in April 2026 library.hrmtc.com/2026/05/01/t #accessible #AlbertusParvusLucius #allForms #allyship #AntonioPagliarulo #apologize #apotropaia #appearance #April2026 #archetypal #Arius #art #astralMagic #AustinOsmanSpare #Babylonia #Baphoment #baroqueSymbolism #beauty #beliefSystems #bestPosts #bestTen #BobbyCampbell #catastrophe #change #chaosMagick #civilization #coCreation #comicbook #complete #divination #EricaReiner #evident #evolving #exhibition #extraordinaryFeats #extraordinaryLives #faiths #figure #folkMagic #follower #freeSpeech #freeThought #grimoriumVerum #guardian #guide #HandOfGlory #handcraftedArtifacts #herbalist #HistoricalIlluminatusChronicles #history #IlluminatusTrilogy #instructionalSymbol #insult #intercession #interpretations #intersection #jesus #JoelBernardBrady #key #kit #LOGOS373 #magic #magicalPractice #magicalRobes #MasksOfTheIlluminati #medicine #MiguelDeMolinos #mindTechniques #miracles #modern #Murderers #mysticalSolidarity #name #nature #needlecraft #newReligion #nocturnalRituals #novel #occult #onlyHope #optional #OraEtLabora #perish #persecutors #petitAlbert #philHine #practices #primer #queer #radical #reason #rituals #robertAntonWilson #RobertShea #sacredImplements #sainthood #saints #savingMankind #science #scientificTexts #selfEmpowerment #seriousThinkers #slavery #sorcererS #sorceresses #spiritRealm #Spiritual #spiritualFuture #spiritualGateway #stars #stones #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #supressors #symbolism #TalesOfIlluminatus #temple #TheGrimoireOfPopeHonorius #thelema #ThomasCranmer #ToddPurse #topPosts #topTen #transcendence #transformation #trueWill #upholders #veneration #zine
  36. RE: mstdn.social/@FromTheRostra/11

    Finished reading. Great coverage of freethought from late 18th to early 20th century.

    Interesting to see some cyclical history. Hoffman describes an antiscriptural emphasis to the Paine era & social reform emphasis in the Robert Owen era, which prefigures a similar difference in 20th/21st century freethought between skeptical debunking and social justice emphases.

  37. RE: mstdn.social/@FromTheRostra/11

    Finished reading. Great coverage of freethought from late 18th to early 20th century.

    Interesting to see some cyclical history. Hoffman describes an antiscriptural emphasis to the Paine era & social reform emphasis in the Robert Owen era, which prefigures a similar difference in 20th/21st century freethought between skeptical debunking and social justice emphases.

    #Humanism #atheism #nonreligion #freethought

  38. RE: mstdn.social/@FromTheRostra/11

    Finished reading. Great coverage of freethought from late 18th to early 20th century.

    Interesting to see some cyclical history. Hoffman describes an antiscriptural emphasis to the Paine era & social reform emphasis in the Robert Owen era, which prefigures a similar difference in 20th/21st century freethought between skeptical debunking and social justice emphases.

    #Humanism #atheism #nonreligion #freethought

  39. RE: mstdn.social/@FromTheRostra/11

    Finished reading. Great coverage of freethought from late 18th to early 20th century.

    Interesting to see some cyclical history. Hoffman describes an antiscriptural emphasis to the Paine era & social reform emphasis in the Robert Owen era, which prefigures a similar difference in 20th/21st century freethought between skeptical debunking and social justice emphases.

    #Humanism #atheism #nonreligion #freethought

  40. Reading David C. Hoffman's American Freethought (2025) and saw the National Liberal League's 1880 presidential platform, including this plank:

    "Universal education the basis of universal suffrage in this secular republic."

    As true now as it was then.

  41. Reading David C. Hoffman's American Freethought (2025) and saw the National Liberal League's 1880 presidential platform, including this plank:

    "Universal education the basis of universal suffrage in this secular republic."

    As true now as it was then.

    #history #nonreligion #freethought #ChurchState

  42. Reading David C. Hoffman's American Freethought (2025) and saw the National Liberal League's 1880 presidential platform, including this plank:

    "Universal education the basis of universal suffrage in this secular republic."

    As true now as it was then.

    #history #nonreligion #freethought #ChurchState

  43. Reading David C. Hoffman's American Freethought (2025) and saw the National Liberal League's 1880 presidential platform, including this plank:

    "Universal education the basis of universal suffrage in this secular republic."

    As true now as it was then.

    #history #nonreligion #freethought #ChurchState

  44. Reading David C. Hoffman's American Freethought (2025) and saw the National Liberal League's 1880 presidential platform, including this plank:

    "Universal education the basis of universal suffrage in this secular republic."

    As true now as it was then.

    #history #nonreligion #freethought #ChurchState

  45. A #Satanist does not tolerate authoritarian control. They stay grounded, set firm limits, & refuse to be coerced. Challenge ideas with reason where useful, but avoid pointless conflict. Protect autonomy, align with those who value freedom, & act with discipline. Strength is not submission, but clear, controlled resistance.

    #QuestionAuthority #Satanism #CriticalThinking #Autonomy #FreeThought

  46. A #Satanist does not tolerate authoritarian control. They stay grounded, set firm limits, & refuse to be coerced. Challenge ideas with reason where useful, but avoid pointless conflict. Protect autonomy, align with those who value freedom, & act with discipline. Strength is not submission, but clear, controlled resistance.

    #QuestionAuthority #Satanism #CriticalThinking #Autonomy #FreeThought