Quotes About Liberation

If someone asks for their freedom, you got to give it to them; otherwise you become their jailer.

Al'inizio lo feci malvolentieri, lo facevo unicamente per dar retta allo Scocciatore, sperando unicamente che la smettesse di tormentarmi. Ma poi ci presi gusto e mi ci dedicai anima e corpo. Avevo scoperto il piacere di scrivere e di ricordare, capivo che in questo modo mi sarei finalmente liberata dal peso del passato e che la penna, come un aratro, avrebbe smosso il terreno della memoria e gli avrebbe dato ordine.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Death is nothing more than the putting off your overcoat, in which you wandered through the street, when you come inside your house and no longer need its protection. It is nothing more than that--the putting off of a garment because it is no longer wanted, because it is no longer useful for the high purposes of the Spirit.

There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed him self on all sides, and thrown off all fetters.

For me, there is no such thing as "feminist fantasies" or "feminist sex." Women's sexual liberation is not about defining what constitutes politically correct sex; it's about exploring and increasing our erotic joy and pleasure.

Aunque venga de un amante, una bañera, un osito de peluche, un dedo, una lengua o un vibrador, un orgasmo es un orgasmo.

Join me in validating masturbation as a primary form of sexual expression.

Remember, the best news of this decade is that we can have all the sex we want on our own terms with someone we love who will never abandon us once we embrace selfloving. Here's wishing you many happy orgasms.

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

She didn't believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Karma does not bind one who has renounced work.

Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.

For the Buddha, the key to liberation is mental purity and correct understanding, and for this reason he rejects the notion that we can gain salvation by leaning on any external authority.

Most beings live immersed in the enjoyment of sensual pleasures. Others, driven by the need for power, status, and esteem, pass their lives in vain attempts to fill an unquenchable thirst. Many, fearful of annihilation at death, construct belief systems that ascribe to their individual selves, their souls, the prospect of eternal life. A few yearn for a path to liberation but do not know where to find one. It was precisely to offer such a path that the Buddha has appeared in our midst.

He who has not repeatedly heard and studied the Gita, yet desires liberation, will be laughed at by children. But those who hear it and study it are not humans. They are certainly like the gods.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement..

What do we hope to accomplish? What will help us realize our deepest dreams and desires? In what ways is education liberating, and in what ways can schooling be entangling and oppressive? Can learning be cast as a creative act, enjoyable and social, or is it always framed as competitive and brutal? What does it mean to be an educated person? What does it mean to be free? Awakened to fundamental and forbidden questions, a new world of possibilities heaves into view.

There is no sound so sweet as the sound of chains that held folks back for so long falling noisily to the ground. And it's still true: Once we can reimagine and resist in significant numbers, we will rise again, reaching new heights and setting better foundations for living and loving, for building a new world.

For two long years the Franks evaded detection by the Nazis. They were less than a month away from Amsterdam's liberation by the Allies when the end came. On August 4, 1944, a secret informant, whose name has never become known, gave away the family's hiding place to the Gestapo.

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.