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