Quotes About Society

Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of "patriotism".

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.