Quotes About Freedom

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.