Quotes About Society

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people