What Society Prevents Freedom Quotes & Sayings

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people. — Milton Friedman

I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow. — Donnie Yen

My pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams. — Gunter Grass

And he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still. — Alfred Jarry

It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket, but when I'm sitting a table signing books, sometimes I notice that a woman will have remarkable breasts. And I will maybe quietly say something about it. It's not in a sexual way, because I'm a gay man - I would never say to a man "great ass" because that would be sort of creepy.. I hope it's not creepy to quietly tell a woman she has nice breasts. — David Sedaris

I only make movies to finance my fishing. — Lee Marvin

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right. — Bob Kane

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men. — Ludwig Von Mises

The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus. — Pat Boone

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing ... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know ... — Gaston Bachelard