Censorship Quote by Salman Rushdie

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

— Salman Rushdie

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

— Natan Sharansky

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

A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.

— Israel Kirzner

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies…

— Michael Ignatieff

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

A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

— Silvia Tennenbaum

A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives…

— Paul Feyerabend

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

— Henry Steele Commager

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

“The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution.”

— Bryant McGill

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