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
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"I would rather be a slave and owe nothing, than not slave and owe my soul to you."
Jane Eyre
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"I would far rather be excommunicated than live under your thumb."
St. John Rivers
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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
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"I am no bird; no net can ensnare me: I am a free human being."
Jane Eyre
J
"I felt as if I had been a slave unfairly bound."
Jane Eyre
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"I wish I were a boy again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"When you have nothing left to lose, you become free."
Jean Valjean
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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
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"We are the masters of our fate."
Edmond Dantès
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"We are not micromachines: we have the power of choice."
Pip
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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
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me."
Monte Cristo
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"I have been and still am sick from the despair of my captivity."
Edmond Dantès
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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
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"Chains bind the body; only truth frees the soul."
Jean Valjean
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"The fetters fall away and light breaks in"
The Narrator
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"What is not forbidden is permitted."
Edmond Dantès
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"We are all slaves to our circumstances."
Edmond Dantès
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"Whatever I have done has been done because I wished to do it."
Estella
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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
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"I would rather die than live in slavery."
Jane Eyre
J
"I would rather be a slave than a pretender."
Jane Eyre
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"Freedom is the greatest treasure."
Edmond Dantès
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"I understood at last what it meant to be truly free."
Pip
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"The greatest luxury is to be free to choose one's path."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Freedom is the greatest gift."
Don Quixote
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"Freedom is knowing thyself."
Levin
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"We are prisoners of our own making."
Alexei Vronsky
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"What have I to do with men's laws or man's opinion?"
Pearl