Natan Sharansky Writer Quotations

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

But by having a right to dissent and having institutions which protect that right, free societies also have mechanisms to correct those abuses.

Just as the sceptics were wrong then, I am convinced they are wrong now about the possibility of freedom spreading to the Middle East.

Because of human diversity - different tastes, ambitions, interests, backgrounds, experiences, etc. - differences of opinion will be inevitable.