Russian Writer Quotations

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

But by having a right to dissent and having institutions which protect that right, free societies also have mechanisms to correct those abuses.

Just as the sceptics were wrong then, I am convinced they are wrong now about the possibility of freedom spreading to the Middle East.

Everywhere a man will be sure to meet at least once in his life something that is unlike anything he had happened to see before.

Because of human diversity - different tastes, ambitions, interests, backgrounds, experiences, etc. - differences of opinion will be inevitable.

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.