Top 1200 Free Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.

Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of great theatres, art cinemas, millions of free books distributed by the governments, public poetry readings, free public lectures, and all sorts of bookstores are open until early mornings, exhibitions reacting to the needs and sorrows of society, concerts of engaged music.

It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you.

America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

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.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

I was always free because I felt free. It's very important to be free inside. The most important thing is to feel free.

We live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. We shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get to live free and you don't.' That means people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. Like Joe (Lieberman), I'm also wrestling with the extent to which there ought to be legal sanction of those relationships. I think we ought to do everything we can to tolerate and accommodate whatever kind of relationships people want to enter into.

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

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

There is so much for the U.K. to be proud of - a world-class, modern economy and a free, fair and tolerant society.

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

The signs of good health are an intellect which is free from inhibition and arrogance, a heart which is full of compassion is healthy, a confusion-free mind, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.

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

Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

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

Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

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

There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

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

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

I am an ardent believer in a free, democratic and inclusive society, and the robust exchange of views that is essential to tolerance.

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.