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