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

R
"Freedom means breaking the rules sometimes."
Randle McMurphy
R
"Rebellion is necessary for survival."
Randle McMurphy
C
"We were prisoners before we ever came here."
Chief Bromden
Y
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a problem for you."
Yossarian
I
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose one's suffering"
Ivan Karamazov
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
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
P
"A person is free when he realizes that he serves something eternal."
Pierre Bezukhov
R
"Freedom is knowing nobody can tell you how to think."
Randle McMurphy
E
"You don't ever have to do anything ever again"
Eliot Rosewater
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
C
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."
Chief Bromden
C
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
Chief Bromden
C
"A man has to fight to be free."
Chief Bromden
C
"Everything is locked down tight as a drum around here."
Cheswick
R
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
Randle McMurphy
J
"The greatest prison is the one we build within ourselves."
Jean Valjean
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
W
"They can make you say anything. But they can't make you believe it."
Winston Smith
P
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish. Nothing else."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
B
"I am my own master and my own slave."
Bernard Marx
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
C
"They can keep me weak by keeping me out here."
Chief Bromden
R
"The real insanity is accepting the rules without question."
Randle McMurphy
C
"The walls keep out the world, but they also keep us in."
Chief Bromden
R
"Freedom isn't given, it's taken."
Randle McMurphy
C
"We're all doing time in different prisons."
Chief Bromden
P
"The freedom that matters to us is not the freedom to do as we please, but the freedom to do what is right."
Pierre Bezukhov
P
"Freedom requires the courage to choose rightly."
Pierre Bezukhov
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith