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

B
"I'm glad I'm not you."
Bernard Marx
J
"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger."
John the Savage
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
W
"Alone—free—the thought filled him with an almost sexual excitement."
Winston Smith
W
"The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion."
Winston Smith
B
"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 rebellion."
Billy Bibbit
R
"They can't make you do nothing if you don't let 'em."
Randle McMurphy
R
"I never wanted to be a hero. I just wanted to be free."
Randle McMurphy
P
"Freedom is the absence of constraint."
Pierre Bezukhov
R
"I'm not saying I'm not crazy, I'm just saying I'm not gonna let them turn me into something I'm not."
Randle McMurphy
R
"They've been bustin' my hump for so long, I forgot what it was like to feel free."
Randle McMurphy
C
"Nobody's ever gonna bust out of here, that's what they want you to believe."
Chief Bromden
Y
"Catch-22 says I can do anything I want to do, but I can't do anything else."
Yossarian
Y
"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 rebellion."
Yossarian
Y
"I don't want to."
Yossarian
J
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
John the Savage
J
"I want to make you unhappy."
John the Savage
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
D
"Freedom is terrifying because it means we must choose our own path."
Dmitri Karamazov
B
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Billy Bibbit
R
"A man who fights for what he believes in, that's a free man."
Randle McMurphy
R
"A man confined is only half a man."
Randle McMurphy
R
"To accept the system is to accept defeat."
Randle McMurphy
R
"Freedom tastes sweeter when stolen from the jailer."
Randle McMurphy
Y
"Catch-22 says I can do anything that's crazy until somebody says I'm crazy."
Yossarian
Y
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of the world is an affront."
Yossarian
C
"We are all puppets on strings."
Chief Bromden
J
"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness."
John the Savage
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
O
"Humanity is not ready for freedom."
O'Brien