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There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies. -- Jane Mayer
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. -- George Soros
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans. -- Michel Chossudovsky
The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment. -- Bill Moyers
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. -- Stokely Carmichael
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. -- Frei Otto
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. -- George Soros
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea. -- Lee Myung-bak
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process. -- Jeff Hawkins
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom. -- Madeleine Albright
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism. -- Elliott Abrams
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. -- George Soros
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. -- Salman Rushdie
'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one. -- Naomi Wolf
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society. -- George Soros
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. -- John F. Kennedy
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I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen. -- Lionel Blue
We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it. -- Jackson Browne
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. -- George Soros
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another. -- Jeff Miller
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. -- George Soros
But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. -- Condoleezza Rice
America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage. -- Thomas Friedman
We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue. -- Ali Babacan
One has to strive for a very open liberal society. -- Zaha Hadid
The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society. -- John F. Kennedy
Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories. -- Max Lucado
A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises. -- Saul Alinsky
I myself am Muslim and I stand on the side of an open society. -- Bassam Tibi
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. -- J. Bowyer Bell
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion -- Aamir Khan
We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society. -- Dalai Lama
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. -- Cornel West
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. -- Susan Orlean
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat. -- George Soros
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society -- Rudy Giuliani
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society. -- Rudy Giuliani
Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open" -- Serge Daney
There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society. -- Bob Dylan
Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause. -- Rebecca West
North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- Thomas Friedman
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry. -- Sidney Hook
We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records. -- Jay Leno
I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience. -- Sanford Levinson
Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ...It is a crime against humanity. -- Pope Francis
The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity. -- Noam Chomsky
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. -- Spencer Bachus
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us. -- Nelson Mandela
I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life. -- Chris Jordan
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background. -- Theresa May
Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time. -- Jochen Zeitz
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost. -- Lawrence Lessig
The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence. -- Karl Popper
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,than the limitations society tries to place upon them. -- Robert M. Hensel
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. ... -- John F. Kennedy
An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. -- George Soros
I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society, political system, an open economy, economic system - this has widespread support. -- Manmohan Singh

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