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 myself a subject to Almighty God, and not under any mortal"Jane Eyre
"Give me my own way entirely, and I shall be a good woman forever"Jane Eyre
"No one is truly free until all are free"Madame Defarge
"How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?"Ishmael
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."Jane Eyre
"I am neither bird nor cage."Jane Eyre
"I cannot let my heart be held in slavery."Jane Eyre
"Freedom is worth the price of blood."Madame Defarge
"The wind that fills a man's sail need not drive him into other men's ports."Starbuck
"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
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."Jane Eyre
"I would die before I would be ruled by tyranny."Jane Eyre
"To be subject to another's will is a dreadful fate."Jane Eyre
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."Catherine Earnshaw
"I'm past caring what anyone thinks of me."Heathcliff
"I'm tired of being enclosed here."Catherine Earnshaw
"No paradise like such liberty."Cathy Linton
"Freedom and its antecedents may struggle with force, but the struggle is eternal"The Narrator
"Better to live one day as a free man than a lifetime of slavery"The Narrator
"Now I stand upon this mast-head alone, and feel as if the whole world were but my oyster."Ishmael
"I only ask to be free. The rest I leave."Estella
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."Jane Eyre
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."Catherine Earnshaw
"The bird is caught—let me go."Catherine Earnshaw
"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."Jean Valjean
"It was not a dull monotony of blind obedience."Ishmael
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."Jane Eyre
"I would rather be a slave and owe nothing than not be a slave and owe my liberation to any man."Jane Eyre
"Rules and systems are all very well for society, but we cannot live by them."Mr. Rochester
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free"Catherine Earnshaw