My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and w...
The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives.
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.
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.
University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
Our possessions are dictating our free time. Sundays used to be for relaxing and eating, and now they're spent cleaning the garage. --pg55
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.
