Charlotte Bronte Quotes

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Death is better than slavery.

People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

You, for whom freedom is dearer than life itself … do not be deceived by the snare that these arrangements are merely temporary. The slavery of a single day is too long for a free soul. Since the other Dutch are free, we too must be free.

Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.