Quotes About Freedom

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn't be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.