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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"To die hating them, that was freedom."Winston Smith
"I'd rather be a gambling fool than the kind of fool this place makes you"Randle McMurphy
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose one's suffering."Ivan Karamazov
"A starving man is not free."Jean Valjean
"I almost wish we were able to choose our conditioning."Lenina Crowne
"How can I be independent when I'm not being myself?"John the Savage
"I don't want to be controlled. I want to be free."John the Savage
"Forgiveness is the true cost of freedom."Jean Valjean
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Yossarian
"The only freedom is the freedom to choose suffering."Yossarian
"I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like a dam busted wide open."Chief Bromden
"Real freedom ain't just walking out the door, it's what you carry in your head."Randle McMurphy
"They medicate you until you can't remember why you wanted to be free."Cheswick
"I'm through asking permission to live."Yossarian
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains of his own making"Pierre Bezukhov
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows"Winston Smith
"Do you understand that even if we escape, they will still own us?"Julia
"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 be let out of here."Billy Bibbit
"He broke the spell."Chief Bromden
"I'm not a performing seal."Randle McMurphy
"I'm not just talking about one person, I'm talking about everybody. The guy who comes in here to patch you up, they're gonna want to know why you couldn't just be calm."Randle McMurphy
"A man who cannot live without freedom is a slave."Chief Bromden
"The card games represent freedom."Randle McMurphy
"I'm finally going to be free."Chief Bromden
"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
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."Winston Smith
"Freedom without faith is tyranny."Ivan Karamazov
"The Savage stood for a moment looking at them, his face flushed, his eyes blazing with anger and something else—a passion the Civilized could not understand"John the Savage
"A man can't be free if he's afraid."Randle McMurphy