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 is worth the fight."
Randle McMurphy
R
"We all have the power to choose."
Randle McMurphy
J
"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
John the Savage
J
"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
Y
"I'm not running away from anything because I don't have anywhere to run to."
Yossarian
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
C
"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose."
Chief Bromden
R
"A man's got to make his own choices, even bad ones."
Randle McMurphy
P
"The greatest freedom lies in acceptance of what cannot be changed"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
J
"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
R
"I got to say what I think, when I think it. That's the only way a man can be a man."
Randle McMurphy
R
"A man's freedom must be fought for every day."
Randle McMurphy
R
"I'm gonna show you men what freedom looks like."
Randle McMurphy
C
"We learned that freedom comes with a cost."
Chief Bromden
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
P
"Freedom is not given but taken."
Pierre Bezukhov
C
"They're not going to let you just walk away from all this, Yossarian."
Colonel Cathcart
Y
"Catch-22 says I can do anything I want to do, but if I want to keep on living, I can't ever do it."
Yossarian
W
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith
O
"Humanity is not ready for freedom."
O'Brien
B
"Tralfamadorians don't believe in free will."
Billy Pilgrim
C
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me."
Cosette
J
"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
M
"That's the price we have to pay for stability."
Mustapha Mond
P
"The freedom of a man consists in this: that he does what he ought to do."
Pierre Bezukhov
G
"I can go away any time"
George Milton
J
"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger"
John the Savage
J
"I want to make you free"
John the Savage
J
"I had rather be Oedipus than a World Controller"
John the Savage