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