Quotes About Liberation

Às vezes acho que seria bom ser um fogo de artifício já explodido: seria um alívio.

J'suis pas allée bosser ce matin... J'crois pas que j'irai demain. Prenons le contrôle de nos vies et vivons pour jouir, non pour souffrir.

Nul ne devrait jamais travailler. Prolétaires du monde entier, reposez-vous !

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice, brother.

Enlightenment" describes a natural consciousness and presence that is fully awakened to its own true nature. This liberation, as I'll explore in Part Three, feels like freedom, peace, and at times an irrepressible love without conditions. We deeply relax into life, and a way of being unfolds that does not feel at all personal.

I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. I want to reach out and touch the plains, Where the streets have no names.

Individual liberation was impossible if other people were suffering.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. — George Orwell, 1984

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

Truthfulness about beliefs sets you free from unconscious domination by beliefs you have come to think are reality. Then, once you are free of the illusion that beliefs are real, you can choose to be consciously dominated by beliefs you know are not real.

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, one that expects no liberation from liberation.

he's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred….

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.

Dance, said the Sheep Man. Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot. Weknowyou're tired, tiredandscared. Happenstoeveryone, okay? Justdon'tletyourfeetstop.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

Pensar libremente es distanciarse del cuerpo. Salir de esa jaula que te limita. Romper las cadenas y simplemente darle alas a la mente.

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

It was like a tight knot inside me was gradually loosening, a knot I'd never even realized, until then, was there.

I never want to be bound to anything. I always want to be able to come and go as I please.