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Quotes About Liberation

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
inner life is inadequately recognised or honoured by many conservative leaders and spokesmen, in word or in work. In effect the theology of conservatism has been sacrificed to the new gods and the new morality of modernity. The discipline of spiritual conservatism has been manifestly lessened by its own peculiar form of liberation theology, as it were, and by the purely quantitative point of view prevailing in the marketplace of ideas.
~ George A. Panichas
Bowling is sex. Bowling is a symbolic form of intercourse, except you don't have to bother about the feelings of some other person. Bowling is sex without guilt. Bowling is what people have wanted down through all the millennia: sex without the slightest responsibility. It's the very distillation of the essence of sex.
~ George Alec Effinger
It is also true that when a people, long kept in a boiling cauldron of oppression, suddenly find the lid removed, they spend their remaining energy battling chimerical enemies.
~ George B.N. Ayittey
La transgresión del orden es el principio del placer.
~ George Bataille
at the basis of every virtue is our power to break its hold
~ George Bataille
I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
~ Lana Turner
Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.
~ Henning Mankell
Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.
~ Peter Frampton
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.
~ John Burnside
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
~ Kris Kristofferson
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
~ Derek Jarman
'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.
~ Alan Colmes
At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
~ Kurt Elling
When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt just like writing my first book again - it was really liberating.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I threw my TV out years ago.
~ Beppe Grillo
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
~ Bill Keller
I've thrown my hair piece away.
~ Jackie Coogan
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade Kim Il Sung, launched the campaigns for increasing agricultural production and donating cereals out of patriotism, and thus faithfully supported the Party's line of nation building.
~ Kim Jong-un
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
~ Karen Horney
I've been taking off my tie for a lot of years. When I take it off, I usually throw it down.
~ Kelvin Sampson