Quotes by Freethinker A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. Augustus William Hare freethinker lawyer thinking By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. Cormac McCarthy freethinker sixteen book God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. Friedrich Nietzsche freethinker crooked thinking I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. George Bernard Shaw freethinker thinking Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free. Gilbert K. Chesterton freethinker thoughtful My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. Kurt Vonnegut freethinker ancestor secular Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all. Laurence Sterne freethinker infidelity thinking