How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Quote #7
Nurse Ratched: If you had obeyed the rules in the first place, you wouldn't have lost your money.
At one point, the patients in the hospital get angry with Nurse Ratched for always making such strict rules for them. But she insists that she knows what's best for them more than they do. And here we finally see just how superior she thinks she is to them.
Quote #8
Cheswick: Rules? Piss on your f***ing rules, Miss Ratched!
You tell her, Charlie. Cheswick eventually explodes and tells Nurse Ratched that he's sick of obeying her rules all the time. After all, many of the men in the mental hospital are there voluntarily and can leave anytime they want. So it makes no sense whatsoever for Nurse Ratched to treat them like idiots. They want to get better, and she should be helping them do that.