Top 100 Quotes About Right To Live
#1. In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.
Fernando Pessoa
#2. ...and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late.
Toni Morrison
#3. Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.
Gautama Buddha
#4. When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#5. What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?
Winona LaDuke
#6. To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
Ariel Sharon
#7. One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
Bertha Von Suttner
#8. The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.
Mo Ibrahim
#9. Those Russkies won't put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down.
Fannie Flagg
#10. Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you
if you don't mind my saying so?
Luigi Pirandello
#11. Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Jean Baudrillard
#12. People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.
Terry Goodkind
#13. Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
Thomas Sowell
#14. Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.
Brad Pitt
#15. True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.
John Twelve Hawks
#16. The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.
Jack Kelly
#17. I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon
#18. We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
Ravi Zacharias
#19. He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.
Jack London
#20. Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.
Robert Frost
#22. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust our legal system
Neil Gaiman
#23. I believe every woman should have the right to live in a home free of deadly weapons.
Elizabeth Evatt
#24. He will give his life, for anything he feels has more of a right to live than he. Make no mistake, Elias. He's a Reed. It's what he does.
Allie Burke
#25. Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus
#26. We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly ... when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.
Leslie Feinberg
#28. There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.
Daniel Keys Moran
#29. Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
Lewis B. Smedes
#30. He hooked the charm into place. "Only this star matters." His thumb brushing over her inner wrist. "Should it be erased, no other has the right to live.
Nalini Singh
#31. you have the right to live a beautiful life
Selena Gomez
#32. In North Korea, you don't own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there.
Barbara Demick
#33. You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.
Miguel Ruiz
#34. It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata
#35. If room isn't found for them, they'll find it for themselves. They've a right to live, same as other folk,' he said loudly. The local inhabitants did not look pleased at the prospect.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls.
Geert Wilders
#37. Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
Leon Uris
#38. If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.
Roy Sesana
#39. Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
John L. Lewis
#40. The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
Stevie Wonder
#41. I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all of God's children
born and unborn, and says that each of us has dignity and all of us have the right to live the American Dream.
Rick Santorum
#42. Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
Margaret Murie
#43. I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#44. An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.
Woodrow Wilson
#45. Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus
#47. We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.
Malcolm X
#48. Why do we allow the painful destruction of our most precious &valuable resource: our children, our future? Why do we have the right to live when they do not?" - Zara Heritage
Zara Heritage
#49. The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.
Karl Pearson
#50. I need you," he said to her, this woman who'd fought for her own right to live her life free of limits, "to build me some remote detonation devices."
Amazing brown eyes shot with blue peering into his as she pressed her nose to his. "You always say the most romantic things.
Nalini Singh
#51. Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#52. Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.
Jonathan Granoff
#53. We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That's why we don't eat animals.
Ruby Roth
#54. The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
George Bernard Shaw
#55. Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.
Narendra Modi
#56. Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;
We know not what we do, and while we're young
We have the right to live and love like gods.
Ovid
#57. Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because God is there with you and is preparing an army to fight for your right to live.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
Rebecca Solnit
#59. Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded on virtually the same basis as admission into an insane asylum: an inability to think, amorality, and nervous excitability. 176
Fernando Pessoa
#60. I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.
Angie Harmon
#61. Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.
Naomi Klein
#62. I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.
Clemence Poesy
#63. What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?
Guy Finley
#64. The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.
Mark R. Levin
#65. Some of us are born to live and to fight, Echo. Others are born to fight for their right to live. When those two collide, there's hell to pay.
Nadege Richards
#66. The right to know is the right to live.
Aruna Roy
#67. I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.
Mark Millar
#68. Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
George L. Brown
#69. The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.
Anthony Pan
#70. Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.
David Boaz
#71. When had the right to live as one wished ever been considered trivial?
Diana Gabaldon
#72. Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter ... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.
Winston Churchill
#73. We are perfect children. Mentally, physically, emotionally, we are wholesome, and godly in every way possible. We have as much right to live, love, and enjoy life as any other children on this earth.
V.C. Andrews
#74. So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
Bono
#75. All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
Ban Ki-moon
#76. I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence.
Ariel Sharon
#77. And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?
Phil Robertson
#78. So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.
Malala Yousafzai
#79. A man's life is worth much more than any sacrifice, no matter how great. For the greatest, the most just, the noblest cause on earth is the right to live ...
Yasmina Khadra
#80. Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
Jack Kerouac
#81. Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.
Fred Kent
#82. Have you done enough today to earn the right to live tomorrow?
Ignatia Broker
#83. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live
Toni Morrison
#84. That's something you'll have to decide for yourself.. I think you have a right to live however you want. Whether you're fifteen or fifty-one, what does it matter? But unfortunately society doesn't agree.
~Oshima, page 198
Haruki Murakami
#85. Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.
Noam Chomsky
#86. I will fight death for my right to live until my last breath.
A.J. Compton
#87. The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.
James Lankford
#88. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.
Marion G. Romney
#89. In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
Andrew Sullivan
#90. I believe that everyone has the right to live a happy and healthy life.
Chris Powell
#91. A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#92. The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.
Noam Chomsky
#93. Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.
Nita Ambani
#94. No one has the right to live without being shocked.
Philip Pullman
#95. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.
Velma Wallis
#96. By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#97. A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton ...
George Bernard Shaw
#98. Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.
Kenji Ekuan
#99. Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put into practice - and her eyes filled with tears. She had won fame and independence and the right to live her own life - and she wanted something different.
Virginia Woolf
#100. I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.
Barry Goldwater
