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  • Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

  • People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

    Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
  • Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

    "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by F. A. Hayek, "The Intellectuals and Socialism", p. 194, 1967.
  • I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.

    Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
  • 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 (2009). “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”, p.15, PM Press
  • Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

  • The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

    Freedom   Ties   Liberty  
  • 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.

    Drama   Exercise   Play  
  • In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

    "Science’s Vital Role In America’s Future" by Dean Kamen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.
  • Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

  • ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

    Evil   Suffering   Limits  
    Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books
  • Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

  • It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

    Tibor R. Machan (2003). “The Passion for Liberty”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Simple   Squares   Views  
    Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer (2009). “The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror”, p.48, PublicAffairs
  • A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

    Hate   Mean   Color  
    "Rand Paul in '02: I may not like it, but 'a free society' will allow 'hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin'" by David Weigel, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.
  • No single person, including the President of the United States, should ever be given the power to make a medical decision for potentially millions of Americans. Freedom over one's physical person is the most basic freedom of all, and people in a free society should be sovereign over their own bodies. When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

  • 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.

    Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.
  • True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.

    Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”
  • The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

    Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2600, Modern Library
  • Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

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

  • Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

  • A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.

    Rights   Giving   Cash  
    "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.
  • 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.

    Believe   Blow   Retreat  
    George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.
  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

    "Joseph Anton: A Memoir". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 2012.
  • Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

    Hate   Law   Crime  
    "Unconstitutional Legislation Threatens Freedoms" by Ron Paul, May 9, 2007.
  • We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

    War   Law   Judging  
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