Quotes About Liberation

Ceux qui croient à l'efficacité révolutionnaire, libératrice, de la répression et de la férocité ont la même mentalité arrierée que les juristes qui croient qu'on peut éviter le délit et moraliser le monde par le moyen des peines sévères.

The great thing was to form the idea that this one thing – mind or world – may well be capable of other forms of appearance that we cannot grasp and that do not imply the notions of space and time. This means an imposing liberation from our inveterate prejudice. There probably are other orders of appearance than the space-time-like. It was, so I believe, Schopenhauer who first read this from Kant.

We was all of us free, brother. For that night at least, we was free.

to live the life of a free man.

We tend to forget that not only must we gain inner freedom from one another, but we must also leave the other free and abandon any fixed concept we may have of him in our imagination.

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation,Arise, ye wretched of the earth,For justice thunders condemnation—A better world's in birth.

When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an instrument for controlling others, either putting or keeping them "in their place." The history of such religious manipulation and coercion is long and tedious. It is little wonder that people who have only known religion on such terms experience release or escape from it as freedom. The problem is that the freedom turns out to be short-lived.

Those who parade the rhetoric of liberation but scorn the wisdom of service do not lead people into the glorious liberty of the children of God but into a cramped and covetous squalor.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

Gimme a whiskey—ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

Precocity is not the price of riding a bicycle, I think, so much as what it has to offer. Wind, a rush of blood, fissures and pits in the asphalt, an errant animal, eyes in a mirror, glint of sunlight on chrome, scent of lake water, catcalls, a soaring feeling. But that is not to say that liberation doesn't have a price.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

I can confirm that I have been released from prison.

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.

If I had one word to describe how I feel at never having to work with co-host Adam Savage again it'd be relief.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.

It's scary to think I only have me to rely on. But there's something liberating about that.

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Don't be afraid to remove your shoes if you are dancing late at night.

We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.