Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

— Madeleine Albright

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

— George W. Bush

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the…

— Alexander Herzen

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid…

— Helen Keller

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and…

— Robert Briffault

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

— Ludwig von Mises

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the…

— Karl Hess

I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or…

— Frederic Bastiat

It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only…

— Mikhail Bakunin

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against…

— James Burnham

Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

— Ayn Rand

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing…

— Hanna Rosin

“In Shivaite tradition, the god's companions are described as a troupe of freakish, adventurous, delinquent and wild young people, who prowl in the night,…

— Alain Daniélou