Zaha Hadid Quotes

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

A free society means that you might have to put up with a lot of things you despise.

In every society liberals are not very popular. Liberalism is not a populist movement.

America is great precisely because it is an open society, and an open society recognizes that nobody is the ultimate arbiter — and that we may be wrong at times, even if we are powerful. We must be open to criticism and respect divergent and different views and interests.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody is right all the time. I'm not right all the time. I don't agree with anybody all the time, and I don't even agree with myself all the time.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

That's the beauty of democracy — you believe what you believe, I believe what I believe, and as long as we're not hurting each other, that's fine. Placing a value judgment on a person's beliefs has no place in a democracy.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

We're all not going to agree on the same things, but that's what makes this country so great.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.