Quotes About Liberty

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

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

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.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

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.

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.

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