Quotes About Society

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.