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Quotes About Freedom

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.
~ John Howard
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
~ Immanuel Kant
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
~ Amitav Ghosh
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
~ Seneca the Younger
If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
~ Jeremy Piven
What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.
~ Diane Keaton
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
~ Eddie Vedder
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.
~ Big Daddy Kane
Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
~ Pablo Neruda
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
~ Jack London
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
~ Giordano Bruno
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
~ Clarice Lispector
Didacticism is the death of art.
~ Alice Dunbar Nelson
I like people who can't die in their bed.
~ Erri De Luca
Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.
~ Philip Kapleau
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
~ Cornel West
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.
~ Don DeLillo
It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death
~ Malcolm X
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
~ Hunter S. Thompson