In a society that restricts individual freedoms and…

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or…

— Ai Weiwei

Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I…

— Lisa Kleypas

For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges,…

— Barack Obama

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal…

— Thomas Jefferson

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development.…

— Ai Weiwei

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

— Gad Saad

“What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground…

— Tom Robbins

“A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense…

— George Orwell

If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you…

— Whitfield Diffie

“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”

— Philip K. Dick

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian…

— Michael Polanyi

“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden, and even…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

I believe in individual freedoms and I believe that the state must be present when the markets demand it.

— Alberto Fernandez

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled…

— Henry Giroux

You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem