Free Society Quotes - Page 9

• In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, People, Vision

  "His Rhetoric, Our Reality". original.antiwar.com. January 26, 2005.

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• The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Two, Important

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• I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.

  Jim Norton

  People, Want, Embarrassed

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.

  Rand Paul

  People, Abhorrent, Groups

  "Rand Paul on Civil Rights: Private Restaurants Wouldn’t Have To Serve Martin Luther King" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

  Ron Paul

  Healthy, Sound, Prosperity

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• Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Civilization, Feelings, Sap

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• I worry very much about kids growing up in a society where they think: "I'm not going to talk about this issue, read this book or explore this idea because someone may think I'm a terrorist." That's not the kind of free society I want for our children.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Jan 04, 2016

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• If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

  Robert Kenner

  Buying, Free Market, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Music, Country, Art

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• The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Blow, Retreat

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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

  Ron Paul

  Hate, Law, Crime

  "Unconstitutional Legislation Threatens Freedoms" by Ron Paul, May 9, 2007.

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Mind, Psychedelic

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Would Be, Moral

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• The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

  Neil MacGregor

  Museums, Liberty, Citizens

  "The whole world in our hands" by Neil MacGregor, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2004.

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• If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.

  Ithiel de Sola Pool

  Struggle, Communication, Technology

  Ithiel de Sola POOL (2009). “Technologies of Freedom”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

  William J. Brennan

  Air, Order, Heritage

  "Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence". Book by Brennan Center for Justice, 1997.

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Clamor, Believer, True Believer

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

  Peter Marshall

  Dream, Historical, Vision

  Peter Marshall (2009). “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”, p.15, PM Press

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• I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

  John Howard

  People, Mind, Important

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

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• I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

  Jerry Springer

  Views, Ideas, People

  Interview with Brian Polk, tv.avclub.com. May 12, 2008.

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• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Mean, Facts

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• A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

  Michael Polanyi

  Meaningful, People, Principles

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

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• I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Goal, People

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• 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

  Milton Friedman

  Men, Evil People, Good People

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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