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"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."

Salman Rushdie on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

  • "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

    Ronald Reagan on Freedom

  • "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

    Nelson Mandela on Freedom

  • "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

  • "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

  • "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

  • "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes."

  • "If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up."

  • "Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall."

  • "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."

  • "Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."

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