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Quotes About Liberation

Now I couldn't care less. I just feel like I can write what I want to write, but don't feel I have anything to prove anymore. I think it's very much internal. I don't care about how others judge me.
~ Jonathan Rauch
The liberation of the human mind," H. L. Mencken once wrote, "has been best furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe—that the god in the sanctuary was a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.
~ Jonathan Rauch
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
~ Jonathan Sacks
The book of Exodus is the West's meta-narrative of hope. It tells an astonishing story of how a group of slaves were liberated from the mightiest empire of the ancient world. Theologically, its message is even more revolutionary: the supreme power intervenes in history in defence of the powerless.
~ Jonathan Sacks
The object that was pinning me haplessly to the ground, like a butterfly on a collector's tray, was of twentieth-century origin and of very specific function. Oh, all right, it was a public lavatory.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the shackles and restraints of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth.
~ Emma Goldman
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…
~ Emma Goldman
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.
~ Emma Goldman
Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.
~ Emma Thompson
Parte de la evolución es aprender a superar el apego, porque el espíritu busca Libertad.
~ Enrique Barrios
El verdadero amor no es apego, no encadena ni se encadena; más bien libera y se libera. Quienes se aman de verdad no necesitan estar pegados como siameses
~ Enrique Barrios
consumismo: esta es una nueva forma de liberación. Estamos destinados a consumir: objetos, cosas superfluas, información, revistas, viajes, relaciones; se trata de tener
~ Enrique Rojas
We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.
~ Epicurus
Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, drink, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter.
~ Eric Berne
Nothing in all history," exulted William Lloyd Garrison, equaled "this wonderful, quiet, sudden transformation of four millions of human beings from … the auction-block to the ballot-box.
~ Eric Foner
If physical mobility is an essential condition of freedom, the bicycle has probably been the greatest single device for achieving what Marx called the full realization of the possibilities of being human invented since Gutenberg, and the only one without obvious drawbacks.
~ Eric Hobsbawm
We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
~ Eric Hoffer
change begins with freedom from the past.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
~ Erica Jong
Liberation under oppression is unthinkable by design
~ Erica R. Meiners
Thus the hero's rescue of the captive corresponds to the discovery of a psychic world. This world is already of vast extent as the world of Eros, embracing everything that man has ever done for woman, everything that he has experienced and created for her sake. The world of art, of epic deeds, poesy, and song which revolves round the liberated captive spreads out like a virgin continent that has broken away from the world of the First Parents.
~ Erich Neumann
For, with the liberation of the captive, a portion of the alien, hostile, feminine world of the unconscious enters into friendly alliance with the man's personality, if not actually with his consciousness.
~ Erich Neumann
Consequently possession by the archetype brings meaning and deliverance at once, since it liberates part of the emotional forces that had been dammed up through the development of consciousness and the resultant exhaustion of emotional components.
~ Erich Neumann
Liberation and free activity only become possible when the ego system has more libido at its disposal than the retentive system, i.e., when the ego's will is strong enough to break away from the corresponding archetype.
~ Erich Neumann