Quotes About Freedom

I say long live the bountiful personality. Long live the people who make people mad. Long live the ones who won't listen to sense. Long live the people who are forever getting warned, one of these times, you're going to go too far! Long live the fiery, the unguilty, the unhumble, the dazzling, the cheerful and the brave. Even if they don't live long, even if they look obnoxious or even stupid in a certain light, they're still wonderful and magnificent to me, and they're free free free.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

The truth did not always set you free. Sometimes it bound you to dark, bloody deeds and cost you the people you loved.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.