Quotes About Freedom

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.