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Quotes About Liberation

Lalla, exuberant, convinced her guru, the Siddha Shrikantha, to give her the teachings by defecating on an image of Shiva that was in the guru's house. When Shrikantha asked her the reason for this act, Lalla replied: "If Shiva is everywhere, he is also in the dirt of the dumping grounds where I usually go. If every place is sacred, why bother choosing?
~ Daniel Odier
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live... I think there are many among you who would be glad to release the world from captivity... This is what prevents them: They're unable to find the bars of the cage.
~ Daniel Quinn
What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.
~ Daniel Quinn
El Código Sith: La paz es una mentira; sólo hay pasión. Con la pasión gano fuerza. Con las victorias rompo mis cadenas. La Fuerza me liberará.
~ Daniel Wallace
By the end of that drilling program, they had the proof. Devon's engineers had successfully yoked together the two technologies—slick water fracturing with horizontal drilling—to liberate natural gas imprisoned in the shale. "The rest was history," Nichols would later say.
~ Daniel Yergin
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving..toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
"Friday's a free day. A woman's day."
~ Neil Gaiman
As I walked out the door towards my freedom, I knew that if I did not leave all the hated, anger and bitterness behind that I would still be in prison.
~ Nelson Mandela
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
~ Terence McKenna
Sexually? Your late 40s and 50s? The bomb!
~ Sheryl Underwood
I'm my age and I feel glorious.
~ Betty Friedan
All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.
~ Wangari Maathai
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
~ Lena Horne
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
relinquish him. From then
~ Wilbur Smith
I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.
~ Wilkie Collins
Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free. Some
~ Will Durant
He gave the human mind a great impetus; he prepared us for freedom.
~ Will Durant
Truth will not make us rich but it will make us free.
~ Will Durant
Damn braces...bless relaxes.
~ William Blake
He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land.
~ William Faulkner
Problem what happened he always woke up the same person went to bed the night before only way he knew it these God damned words going through his head, go to bed knew he'd wake up the same God damned person finally couldn't take it anymore, same God damned words waiting for him only thing to do get rid of the God damned container for the thing contained, God damned words come around next morning God damned container smashed on the sidewalk no place for them to . . .
~ William Gaddis
They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.
~ William Golding
Acting like a crowd of kids/ the mask was a thin thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness/ He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in return/ They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought"?Lord of the Flies?
~ William Golding