Exception Quote by Lawrence Lessig

“mass communications in free societies, is an indispensable element of terrorism. Closed societies, with control of mass communications, are not good targets.”

— J.C. Wylie

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

— Gene Sharp

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the…

— Lawrence Lessig

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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…

— Salman Rushdie

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They…

— George W. Bush

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good…

— Natan Sharansky

The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established…

— Ithiel de Sola Pool

“I want to suggest to you that citizens of free societies, democracies, do not preserve their freedom by pussyfooting around their fellow-citizen's opinions, even…

— Salman Rushdie

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

— Will Hurd