Freedom Quotes

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

28646 quotes

O
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."
Offred
H
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it."
Huckleberry Finn
L
"A woman's life is her own."
Laila
L
"She would make choices. She would live her own life."
Laila
O
"The night is mine, my own time, to do with as I like, as long as I am quiet"
Offred
H
"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it."
Huckleberry Finn
H
"I was powerful glad to get away from the widow's."
Huckleberry Finn
O
"I am not just an incubator."
Offred
M
"I am like a prisoner in this house, but without the dignity of being jailed."
Mariam
M
"There is something honorable in choosing your own end."
Mariam
G
"Wherever men have left their footprints in the struggle for freedom, there is found a sort of sacred ground"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Freedom is a burden that few are capable of carrying"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
L
"I'm going to wear whatever I want."
Laila
L
"I will choose my own path, even if it leads to ruin."
Laila
J
"The mind creates its own prisons."
José Arcadio Buendía
W
"We are all prisoners of something"
Werner
J
"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 liberation."
Jean Valjean
L
"I have lived a life that is not mine."
Laila
W
"We are all trapped by circumstances beyond our control."
Werner
M
"We choose who we become, even in captivity."
Marie-Laure
G
"She understood that forgetting was a form of freedom."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"There is no such thing as fate."
Jean Valjean
C
"We create our own prisons and then become surprised by our captivity."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
L
"To steal books was to steal a future."
Liesel Meminger
C
"Better to reign in my small kingdom than serve in another's"
Circe
C
"I have made my island a refuge, not a prison"
Circe
C
"I choose to believe in my own agency, despite the gods"
Circe
O
"You cannot control others' opinions of you. You can only control your own actions."
Ove
C
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a complete negation of it."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
G
"No matter what happens, one would never possess her soul."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)