Quotes of: Free-society Keyword

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Salman Rushdie

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Natan Sharansky

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

John Roos

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Michael Novak

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

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

David Harsanyi

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

Natan Sharansky

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

Michael Moore

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

Greta Van Susteren

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Vladimir Putin

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Jesse Ventura

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societi...

Michael Ignatieff

All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.

Voice of Reason

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Walter Lippmann

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Salman Rushdie

The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted is expected to work harder than usual. The socialist society, however, is proble...

Ben Shapiro

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Natan Sharansky