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Quotes About Struggle

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
~ Frederick Douglass
Freedom is never given, it is won.
~ Henrik Ibsen
There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.
~ Unknown
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment
~ Nelson Mandela
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
~ Unknown
Everyone pushes a falling fence
~ Chinese Proverbs
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
~ Bob Dylan
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency
~ Aldous Huxley
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
~ Corazon Aquino
Slavery is hell. Freedom is heaven. Deception is warfare. Honesty is peace.
~ Unknown
The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.
~ Unknown
War - hard apprenticeship of freedom
~ Edward Everett Hale
Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you dont throw yourself down the stairs, thats a choice. Every time you dont crash your car, you reenlist.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth
~ Henrik Ibsen
Inside me theres a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes
~ Bob Thaves
If life gives you lemons don't make a fu..ing lemonade take the sh..ty lemons and throw them at the assole who's making your life hard.
~ Unknown
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them.
~ Charles West
I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.
~ Wally Wang
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
~ Ed Asner
My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.
~ Unknown