Quotes About Freedom

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.

India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

I don't want to be identified with any political party.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel's Declaration of Independence grants all Israel's inhabitants equality of social and political rights irrespective of religion, race or gender.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

The Internet is a politically contested space.

There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts.

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

No, I'm not politically correct. I never wanted to be, and I never will be.

I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.

I'm not a politician. I'm not running for office. I can say what I think.

It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.