How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Quote #1
Nurse Ratched: The best thing we can do is go on with our daily routine.
Even after Billy Bibbit has killed himself, Nurse Ratched's biggest concern is making sure the patients of the hospital stick to their daily routine. And what is a routine if not a method of control? This is exactly what pushes McMurphy over the edge and makes him want to strangle her.
Quote #2
Nurse Ratched: Some men take a long, long time to get used to the schedule.
McMurphy wants to watch the World Series, but Nurse Ratched isn't ready to change the patients' schedule just for him. She is utterly convinced that the best thing for the patients is to have a routine that never, ever changes. She thinks that by stripping away their ability to make choices and be individuals that she'll get them to be good members of society. And the creepiest part of it is that everything she says sounds totally sane and reasonable. That's how she can get away with enforcing such rigid rules.
Quote #3
McMurphy: F*** the schedule! They can go back to the schedule after the Series!
McMurphy obviously doesn't find the daily schedule as important as Nurse Ratched does. He thinks that it won't kill the hospital patients to break their schedule just for one night to watch a baseball game. But as you can tell, he doesn't express his frustration in a very calm way, which doesn't exactly help his case for sanity.