Community Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image “If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Controlled Freedom Government Ifs Politics
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… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority. — Alf Landon Copy Share Image
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image