Quotes of: Free-society Keyword

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Salman Rushdie

Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We don’t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They ...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditio...

Theodore Kaczynski

..Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit n...

Henrietta Newton Martin

Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a “good” body. Your body didn’t do anything w...

Golda Poretsky

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Chinese

Those who have free seats at the play are the first to hiss.

Chinese

You are still a slave if only your limbs are free.

German

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ru...

Propaganda

If kids six and under eat free, then I’m an infant. Or at least infantile. Bring on the steaks.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)

The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra

Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If God's existence were logically inescapable, there would be no free will to choose whether or not to believe in Him.

Why It Doesn't Matter What You Believe If It's Not True: Is There Absolute Truth?

Celine: You know, I have this awful paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men so that they could like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me. We're all happy and free as long as I...

Before Sunrise

Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind

Collusion

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

George Berkeley

Hard to grasp democracy without free will.

Master of Stupidity

The best ingredient is free. Free always makes food taste better.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.

Pass Through Panic: Freeing Yourself from Anxiety and Fear

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Three Plays

I wanted nothing for free. Nothing came for free at our place anyway.

Underdog