Quotes About Liberation

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.

To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.

A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.

A terrible burden seemed to drain from him.

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.

If dreams of flying are the last hope of freedom I will pray for wings with my last breath.

I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

When you find him, tell him the joke is over. He must release me.

Surely a freed soul could only be joyful and wild; this was a being filled with anxiety and dread.

Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.

wings greater than wings wings greater than walls

Passing meant people thought a person's identity was just a coat, not a shackle, as if the passer had the key to run free from oppression.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

Party like a bonobo!

When I left the parole building that day, it was the first time in two decades that I was no longer in the clutches of the U.S. justice system.

the Formula and had then become imprisoned by it: first Kissing with Tongue for the fixed interval, then Tits for the fixed interval, then Fingering Her for the fixed interval before, culminatingly, Fucking. Never a step neglected nor a change to the order. A sex recipe. Now with a shock he realized that it needn't be thus.

Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.