Quotes About Freedom

The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

I don't clean, I don't make the bed. I spend my salary. I worry a lot. I just don't worry about socks on the floor.

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Sophie is so free-spirited, open-minded, and intelligent. She brings the sensuality. The soft connection. She can look people in the eye and make them feel something.

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.

Proprietary software is an injustice.

I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

I've met so many real heroes, people whose service has given me the life I'm lucky to live on U.S. soil.