Chief Bromden

"They've been working on me for years and they've never gotten me to cry"

"The world outside don't matter much when you're in here."

"I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like a dam busted wide open."

"The Combine don't like nothing that don't fit into their little boxes."

"Once you let them break your spirit, you ain't never the same."

"I grew six inches since I been here."

"The nurse, she's like a machine, all cold and precise."

"You think you're the first one to try fighting back? There's been plenty before you."

"She's been breaking men's spirits long before I got here."

"They use shame like a weapon in this place."

"I see things in here that most people never see on the outside."

"You can't buy dignity, but you sure can lose it easy."

"The small kindness is what separates us from the machinery."

"I found my voice again, and nobody can take that from me."

"Sometimes being crazy is the only sane response to an insane world."

"I came here broken, and I'm leaving myself back together piece by piece."

"That's the way this place works. Don't give up the ship."

"You're the first one to ask me that in years."

"The Combine is real. It's a huge organization that aims to adjust the Outside as well as she has the Inside."

"The Acutes aren't really nuts. They're just where they landed when they got tired of the outside."

"I been crazy."

"He was the only one who could beat the Combine."

"Everybody on the ward is a little bit crazy."

"The fog never comes in till late afternoon."

"He broke the spell."

"He made us feel like we were men."

"Everything the Combine controls is a trap."

"Nobody wants to start a revolution around here."

"He showed us what freedom looks like."

"The day room is where we are monitored."