John Rawls Quotes

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights ... at the school house door.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect—freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The Liberty of Conscience and of the Press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by any authority of the United States

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together.

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

Light and liberty go together.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Since the uprisings in the Middle East many scholars have come out saying that freedom comes first before the Shariah. There is also something important that we must keep in mind in our understanding the Shariah, and that is the room for what is permissible should be as wide as possible. So we should leave it open to let people be creative.

The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them . It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.