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• By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Doubt, Literature

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• All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Men, Hands, Order

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• When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

  Emma Goldman

  Lying, Patriotic, Brotherhood

  "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying
  ordinance of the most extreme kind

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Maintenance

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  Ma Jian

  Believe, Fall, Hands

  "Search Rings SEARCH China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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

  Alan Barth

  Loyalty, Miscellaneous, Depends

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• Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Past, Innovation

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• 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.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hero, Past, Risk

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• As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

  David Puttnam

  Intelligent, World, Responsible

  " A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

  Alexander Downer

  Views, Media, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Lying, Simple, Ordinary

  "Justice Kennedy Wants You to Fight Lies with Truth" by Robyn Hagan Cain, blogs.findlaw.com. June 29, 2012.

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• A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Simple, Squares, Views

  Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer (2009). “The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror”, p.48, PublicAffairs

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• We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

  Jerry Springer

  Mainstream Society, Television, Behavior

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• Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Monopoly, Exception, Has Beens

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments.

  James Morcan

  Government, Veils, Nazi

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• Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Rights, Government

  "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.

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• The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing to devote to pubic purposes should be under the control of government, is wholly alien to the basic principles of a free society.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Government, Organization

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• In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Guilty, Responsible, Terrible

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• Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Foundation

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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• At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Self, Risk, Nerves

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• Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

  Winston Churchill

  Infinite, Initiative, Process

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• ... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future. It would also ensure that, if at some point in the future, a real catastrophe, whether human-induced or otherwise (including climate change), does loom on the horizon, humanity would be in a better position to address it.

  Julian Morris

  Real, Adoption, Humanity

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• It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Believe, People

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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