pursuit of freedom Quotes

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.

The price of freedom is death.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

I have tried in my way to be free.

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

There's no easy way to be free.

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.

All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization.

We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.