Quotes About Freedom

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.