“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
Audre Lorde · 1981 speech
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Philosophy Quotes
363 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
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“We should all be feminists.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2012 TEDxEuston talk, later a 2014 book
“Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.”
Don Miguel Ruiz · The Four Agreements, 1997
“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“It is not what he does that will make you know him, but his manner.”
Confucius · The Analects
“We are all born originals; why is it so many die copies?”
Edward Young · Conjectures on Original Composition, 1759
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde · De Profundis, 1897
“I fashioned myself a new name.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998
“You think you are safe? You think you are protected?”
Lord Voldemort · attributed to the character in the series
“You dare speak his name?”
Lord Voldemort · attributed to the character across the series
“Wormtail, you promised me your loyalty.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000
“Come out and face me!”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007
“I confess myself disappointed.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007
“Lord Voldemort does not forgive easily.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000
“Only I can live forever.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007
“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
Lord Voldemort · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007
