You know, I learned at a very early age that what kind of social system or political system prevails is very important. Not just for your well-being, but for your very survival. Because, you know, I could have been killed by the Nazis. I could have wasted my life under the Communists. So, that's what led me to this idea of an open society. And that is the idea that is motivating me.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I b…

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. Tha…

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 ope…

An open society is always in danger. It must constantly reaffirm its principles in order to survive. We are being sorely tested, first by 9/11 and then by Pres…

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of som…

In the end, the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangero…