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

O
"Humanity is not ready for freedom."
O'Brien
J
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness."
John the Savage
J
"Beauty, passion, and danger—all suppressed."
John the Savage
J
"Words like liberty and passion mean nothing here."
John the Savage
R
"I'm not saying they're gonna let me go, but I'm not letting them stop me from trying."
Randle McMurphy
C
"We're all prisoners here."
Cheswick
J
"Do you know what you are? You are a soul in prison."
Jean Valjean
N
"You're not gonna be happy unless you're somebody's wife or mother or daughter."
Nurse Ratched
R
"Maybe I am crazy. But at least I ain't broke."
Randle McMurphy
C
"One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest."
Chief Bromden
R
"Everybody deserves a chance to go his own way."
Randle McMurphy
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
D
"Money is printed freedom"
Dmitri Karamazov
I
"Freedom is terrifying because it leaves us responsible for our choices"
Ivan Karamazov
I
"The future is not determined by prophecy but by choice"
Ivan Karamazov
J
"I want freedom to be unhappy"
John the Savage
J
"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy"
John the Savage
P
"Freedom is not the absence of constraints but mastery of them"
Pierre Bezukhov
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
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
R
"Nobody can tell me I'm crazy for wanting to go fishing."
Randle McMurphy
R
"Freedom ain't something you're given—it's something you take."
Randle McMurphy
C
"That fishing trip was the last free thing he ever did."
Chief Bromden
Y
"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose."
Yossarian
I
"Freedom is given to human beings, and therein lies our tragedy"
Ivan Karamazov
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
O
"It is intolerable that an errand boy should perceive that he is a slave."
O'Brien
P
"A man is always a slave. Either to the law or to other men"
Pierre Bezukhov
R
"I'm not just talking about one fellow, I'm talking about everybody."
Randle McMurphy
R
"Freedom is when you stop worrying about what people think."
Randle McMurphy