Quotes of: Free-society Keyword

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Arthur Keith

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Barbara Amiel

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Wendell Berry

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Willem de Kooning

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Essays: First and Second Series

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

Burning Lamp (Arcane Society, #8)

A brick could be used to represent society as a whole. But to represent society as a half, I’d recommend using either a full carton of half and half, or a half-full carton of whole milk. 

Brick

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

Gail Collins

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.

The Rose Society

Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.

St. Joseph, Fatima and Fatherhood

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Montauk

A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

The Unconscious Civilization

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And when there are no more classes, when society is socially democratized and unified, then there will be revealed in all its metaphysical depths the never-ending tragedy of the conflict between personality and society.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Natan Sharansky

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden