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“We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.”

Ideas Comes And Goes Free Society

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.”

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Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Looks Duty Citizens Our World Free Society

Book:Ill Fares the Land

Source: Ill Fares the Land

“It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate control. We ought to have a free internet, but that means having a free society, and there is fundamental questions there.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“It's hard to achieve that, especially in a free society, but it's been done, and that's the kind of thing that activists in the IWW have to work against, right on the shop floor. It's not so simple, but it's been done before.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.”

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Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because it's right, it must be victorious. On the other hand, you say, it's right whether it's victorious or not. And this is what I believe about a free society.”

Thinking Believe Hands I Believe Serious Free Society Ambivalence

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.”

Firsts Believe I Believe Differences Chance Effort Destiny Starting I Believe In Aspiration Our Destiny Your Destiny Chances Are Free Society Starting Point

Author:Paul Ryan

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

“[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.”

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Author:Geert Wilders

“Liberals have lost the soul. We haven't recognized the necessity of defending our own system at the level of ideas. We have to get people to treat the idea of a free society as a civic religion or a faith. We need to fight for that faith.”

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Author:James M. Buchanan

“I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles of free society, that have shaped my life, my family, our company, and America.”

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Author:Charles Koch

“There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.”

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

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Book:The good society

Source: The good society

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

“The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.”

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Author:John McCain

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

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Author:Michael Moore

“A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.”

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Book:Freedom Under Siege

Source: Freedom Under Siege

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

Simple Path Pages Glorious Tragic Free Society

Author:Vladimir Putin

“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.”

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Author:Tim Robbins

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

Free Society Friction

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

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

Literature Protected Dissent Free Society

Author:Natan Sharansky

“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.”

Ifs Want Literature Walks Views Towns Squares Free Society Being Free

Author:Natan Sharansky

“Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

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

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.”

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Author:Cal Thomas

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.”

“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.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

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Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.”

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Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.”

Way Years America Thousand Mess Confused Thousand Years Chaotic Free Society

Author:Edward Abbey

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

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”

“Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states - “fear societies” and “free societies.”… The two societies make up two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped … In contrast, the consciousness of freedom … is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry … It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf

“To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

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Book:No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue

Source: No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue

“We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.”

“Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

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