One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rules and Order Quotes

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.

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.

Cheswick tells Nurse Ratched that he's sick of being treated like a child. The problem is that he ends up getting electroshock therapy because of his outburst. So how's that for rewarding individual expression?