Quotes About Liberation

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

Oppression is no longer centralized, for it is everywhere. The positive aspect of this disintegration is that everyone begins to see, in their state of almost complete isolation, that they must first save themselves, make themselves the centre, and from their own subjectivity build a world where they can be at home anywhere.

Henceforward, no revolution will be worth the name if it does not at the very least imply the radical elimination of all hierarchy.

Religious beliefs concealed humans from themselves, a Bastille walling them up in a pyramidal world with God at the summit and the king just below. Alas,

Try this! throw one stone in the air and think. This stone could only consider itself to be free, if it could forget the hand that hath thrown it. I will share a secret of bob marley and I reasonings with you. Listen, he sang, no chains around my feet, yet I'm not free!. Where, and from whom do you think he got that?

yoga is breaking the bond with suffering

Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.

There is a war out there, and believe me, Fly, it was never really between Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Crusaders and Confucius. The final battle is between those who love, respect, and liberate the body and those who hate it

But Nadja sensed his intention and said, It was just a game. You take captivity too seriously. If anything, surrender will liberate you from the burden of yourself.

The function of the zazen and koan is to undo the system that contains them.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

In the words of historian Robert Olwell, "fugitive slaves were sheltered under the guise that they constituted contraband enemy property, rather than recognized as liberated persons."90 Royal officers wanted slaves for the labor they might perform—and to deprive the rebels of that labor.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

I think my most happy and carefree state was 2012 because I really did say, 'Forget everything. I'm going to play for myself.'

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

Caring less about what people think is a big thing for me.

I've stopped caring what people think.

Once I started getting more successful, I just stopped caring completely - 'I'll just do exactly what I want. It doesn't matter.'

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

I knew I wasn't born to be caged and chained up.

I felt caged by my childhood.

We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.