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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"Every person on earth has a destiny, and his destiny is what makes him free."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"I chose my own path when none was given to me."
Circe
C
"Some say I am a witch. I say I am free."
Circe
M
"To refuse to participate is also a kind of choice."
Marie-Laure
D
"Words were her way out."
Death
D
"She stole books and lived."
Death
O
"You cannot control what others do, only what you do."
Ove
M
"Freedom is the frequency between stations."
Madame Manec
C
"I would rather rule my own small island than serve a greater power."
Circe
C
"I chose solitude not as exile, but as dominion."
Circe
O
"A man should die as he lived—on his own terms."
Ove
C
"I learned that freedom has a cost"
Circe
C
"My island was my kingdom, small though it was"
Circe
G
"Freedom is just another name for a prison we choose"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"I chose exile over servitude"
Circe
C
"The threads of fate are not immutable"
Circe
C
"My story is one of rebellion against divine tyranny"
Circe
D
"The power to choose your own words is the power to choose your own destiny."
Death
D
"In the end, words are all we have to resist tyranny."
Death
G
"She understood that freedom was not the absence of chains, but the acceptance of them."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"A debt paid is a chain broken."
Jean Valjean
C
"I refused to be diminished by their judgment"
Circe
C
"I would not be enslaved by expectation"
Circe
C
"I chose myself, and in that choice found everything"
Circe
D
"Words had the power to free you or imprison you."
Death
C
"I chose my own fate"
Circe
C
"I built a life that was entirely my own"
Circe
C
"I chose my own path when the gods would not"
Circe
C
"The world calls me witch, but I call myself free"
Circe
C
"There is a kind of freedom in being forgotten"
Circe