Quotes About Liberation

We are liberated by calculation and reason to visit regions of possibility that had once seemed out of bound or inhabited by dragons.

Where is the voice of freedom, / freedom to laugh, / to move / without the heavy phantom of despair? (From Farewell from Welfare Island)

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain of humor. But some patients at the beginning of analysis make incessant jokes about themselves, or exaggerate their difficulties in so dramatic a way that they will appear funny, while they are at the same time absurdly sensitive to any criticism. In these instances humor is used to take the sting out of an otherwise unbearable shame.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Die Proletarier dieser Welt haben nichts zu verlieren als ihre Ketten. Sie haben eine Welt zu gewinnen. Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Proletaryan?n, zincirlerinden baÅŸka kaybedecek bir ÅŸeyi yoktur. Ama kazanacaklar? bir dünya vard?r.

The Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

EleÅŸtiri, zinciri süsleyen hayali çiçekleri, insan bu gerçek d??? süslerden soyulmuÅŸ prangalar? ta??s?n diye deÄŸil, zincirleri f?rlat?p ats?n ve canl? çiçeÄŸe uzans?n diye kopartm??t?r.

Abolid la explotación del hombre por el hombre y habréis abolido la explotación de una nación por otra.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Only one who has practiced intensively in preparation for the transition that occurs at death and gained sufficient mental control is capable of exerting an influence on its future state of existence or avoiding rebirth altogether by achieving liberation.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

Free men set themselves free.