Richard Dawkins Quotes

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

There should be no hindrance to what we want to do, what we want to wear, what we think and how we want to travel. Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and impugning on anyone else's rights, or you want the state to deal with everything.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.