Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
J
"I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
C
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw
T
"The fetters fall away, and men stand upright at last"
The Narrator
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"We are prisoners all—of circumstance, of birth, of our own nature"
The Narrator
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of a joke."
Lord Henry Wotton
C
"I'm not ordered to be anyone's slave."
Cathy Linton
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"We are all prisoners of our own making."
Heathcliff
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"Though I am bound in flesh, my spirituality soars"
Ishmael
J
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
J
"I would rather be a slave in some horrible den than his wife."
Jane Eyre
J
"I am no longer a slave to my circumstances."
Jane Eyre
P
"I am bound by chains of my own making."
Pip
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"We are all prisoners of circumstance."
Magwitch
C
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw
J
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
P
"Freedom from want does not equal freedom from suffering."
Pip
C
"I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a continent between me and the law."
Captain Ahab
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of rebellion."
The Narrator
D
"I have always been my own master; let that be my epitaph."
Dorian Gray
C
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw
T
"Freedom cannot be purchased, only earned through suffering and struggle"
The Narrator
H
"Doth the universe lie within the compass of yonder town?"
Hester Prynne
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"I am not to be within the scope of man's ordinances"
Hester Prynne
P
"Take it off! She may cover her bosom with it!"
Pearl
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
J
"I would rather die than take a step from my own choice."
Jane Eyre
C
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw
C
"You speak as if you had a right to claim me."
Catherine Earnshaw
J
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me"
Jane Eyre