Quotes About Liberation

Who can chart the vastness of Incarceron? Its halls viaducts, its chasms? Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

Ethan wondered if it was the first time any of his emotions had ever felt free.

He'd once overheard his mom telling her best friend, Judy, "Almost everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

Just slip on something black and low-cut, carve yourself the biggest goddamn slice of whatever cake they said you couldn't have, and be a VILLAIN for a night! Come on. You know they deserve it. You know they ALL deserve it. What's the use of all that rage you got if you don't take it out for spin?

She drank like a Czar and sang like a broken squeezebox and danced like the Sugarplum Fairy cutting loose at last

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Women's liberation did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual; the visionary feminists of the late sixties and early seventies knew that women could never find freedom by agreeing to live the lives of unfree men.

If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

le vittime dei bombardamenti degli Alleati che ci stavano liberando furono molto più numerose dei caduti nelle rappresaglie dei tedeschi che occupavano l'Italia.

Vorrei che tutti leggessero, non per diventare letterati o poeti, ma perché nessuno sia più schiavo.

As radioman Rudolf-Günter Wagner broadcast the news to the crowds of newly liberated Berliners, his words were drowned out by joyous whoops and shrieks. "Hurrah!" they shouted. "Wir leben Noch!" (We're still alive!). Berliner Manfred Knopf had lived through four years of uncertainty. Now he felt a sense of victory. "We belonged to the Western world!

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

Lo decepcionante no es tanto la liberación sexual como la ausencia de vida erótica, la transformación de la relación en rutina, la falta de comunicación entre las personas.

Compreende-se por que, numa sociedade de indivíduos destinados à autonomia privada o atrativo do Novo é tão vivo: ele é sentido como instrumento de "liberação" pessoal, como experiência a ser tentada e vivida, pequena aventura do Eu.

A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. —Margaret Atwood

Maybe that, then, is the definition of freedom: to be neither protected by nor tethered to a man who can fix anything.

Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.

Un giorno però era accaduto qualcosa. Essendomi capitato di leggere in uno dei taccuini stendhaliani queste parole isolate: "All lost, nothing lost", di colpo, come per miracolo, mi ero sentito libero, guarito. Avevo preso una cartolina, ci avevo scritto sopra la riga di Stendhal, quindi l'avevo spedita a Micòl, tale e quale, senza metterci niente, nemmeno la firma, ne pensasse pure quello che volesse. Tutto perduto, niente perduto. Come era vero! - mi dicevo -. E respiravo.