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“All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.”

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Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.”

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Author:Ric O'Barry

“The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”

Source: A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer

“Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”

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Author:Axel Munthe

“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.”

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Author:Pat Derby

“Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”

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Author:James Madison

“Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.”

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Author:Tuvia Bielski