Society Free People Quotes

• Greta Van Susteren / Commentator

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

• Sean Spicer

I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.

• Ben Stein / Actor

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

• Rand Paul / United States Senator

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.

• John Mackey

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

• John F. Kennedy / 35th U.S. President

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

• Pankaj Mishra / Essayist

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

• George Soros / Business Magnate

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

• Mark Bradford / Artist

I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.

• Caroline Lucas / Former Member Of The European Parliament

In a fair society, the solution to unemployment is not to force people into workfare programmes which do little more than supply big companies with free labour. It's to create jobs that pay a living wage, for example, by investing in new sustainable infrastructure projects and boosting the jobs-rich low carbon economy.

• Norman Finkelstein / Political Scientist

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them.

• Rand Paul / United States Senator

In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.