There will not be one kind of community existing and one kind of life
led in utopia. Utopia will consist of utopias, of many different and
divergent communities in which people lead different kinds of lives
under different institutions. Some kinds of communities will be more
attractive to most than others; communities will wax and wane. People
will leave some for others or spend their whole lives in one. Utopia is
a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join
together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision
of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his
own utopian vision upon others.
--Robert Nozick
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Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so
soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you
will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse,
nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of
existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's
determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper
declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to
exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for
tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name
of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon
sleeping men.
--Voltairine de Cleyre
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A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to
its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal
formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes
contradictory ideas.
--Felix Frankfurter
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is
a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the
slave of as many masters as he has vices.
--Augustine of Hippo
If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind
to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding
heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the
secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure.
--Bahá'u'lláh
