Free Society Quotes - Page 3

• Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.

  Michael Shermer

  Goal, Tribes, Members

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• Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Russia, Heaven, Society

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• Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Race, Goal

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• We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.

  Marianne Williamson

  Ideas, Comes And Goes

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate control. We ought to have a free internet, but that means having a free society, and there is fundamental questions there.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Fundamentals, Internet

  "Noam Chomsky interview". Interview with Jegan Vincent de Pau, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction.

  Allen W. Wood

  Party, Race, Long

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

  Ai Weiwei

  Attitude, Different, Way

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!

  Frank Zappa

  Facts, Adults, Looks

  Source: afka.net

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• Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lucky, Asking, Answers

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Recognition, Theme, Importance

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Average, America

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Believe, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• [Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.

  Geert Wilders

  Law, Acting, Lines

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• Liberals have lost the soul. We haven't recognized the necessity of defending our own system at the level of ideas. We have to get people to treat the idea of a free society as a civic religion or a faith. We need to fight for that faith.

  James M. Buchanan

  Fighting, Ideas, People

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Class

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, 2008.

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• I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Reality, Conservative, Behalf

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• The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.

  Milton Friedman

  Economic, Possibility, Resources

  Milton Friedman (1978). “Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government”, Fisher Inst

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• 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.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Enforcement, Prevention

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• Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

  Bill Moyers

  Struggle, Ordinary, Citizens

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• America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

  Saul Alinsky

  Spiritual, America, Arrogance

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.183, Vintage

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• The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government.... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Gun, Government, Self

  "Guns and Liberty". Mises Daily, June 03, 1999.

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• I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.

  Gillian Roberts

  Thinking, Offering, House

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• We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?

  Thomas Sowell

  Dedication, Long, Lasts

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• Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.

  Hodding Carter III

  Trends, Matter, Virtue

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• The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

  John W. Gardner

  Drama, Exercise, Play

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