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Quotes About Liberation

At two o'clock this afternoon, alarm! The Americans! An American detachment takes over the hotel. We are free!
~ William L. Shirer
I wanted to do a book that was extremely suspicious of storytelling... it ("Embassytown") is very skeptical of the liberating potential of narrative. [I present] the idea that narrative may just as well be a shackle as [well] as a key.
~ China Mieville
Objects foraged out of Nazis' quarantine, fenced for colossal sums in the black markets of the world outside. Manifs stolen while the partisans fight for liberation, while Thibaut and his comrades face down devils and fascists and errant art, and die.
~ China Mieville
I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.
~ China Mieville
Kim yaratm??t?? Kuma olmaktan, insan?n ruhuyla, bedeniyle tutsak olmas?ndan daha küçültücü ?ey var m? dünyada? Zavall? kad?nlar, mezarlar?n?zdan kalk?n! K?zl?klar? ellerinden zorla al?nm?? kad?nlar?n, a?a??lanm?? kad?nlar?n ruhlar?, kalk?n! Kalk?n, kötü dünyalar?, pis dünyalar? titretin! Ben ça??r?yorum sizi, ben, sonuncunuz! Ben, ba?kald?ran kuma.
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
M????kya? eka? kevala? mumuk?u??? vimuktaye).
~ Chinmayananda
I thought that if lokas existed at all, good women would surely go to one where men were not allowed so that they could be finally free of male demands.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time: psychological disorder, social disorder, metaphysical disorder, or physical disorder, constantly happening. If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
And night, free at last, stirred, stretching, feral.
~ Chris Abani
I'd like to quote the lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein—something that's extremely easy to do when you're in a library near 782.14 and all those magnificent Broadway show tunes—'I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly!'
~ Chris Grabenstein
Hang on. It's some kind of word game." "Is there a clue?" asked Haley. "Of course." Kyle read the tiny slip of paper taped to the glass. " Ã¢â'¬ËœOnce you learn how to do this, you will be forever free.
~ Chris Grabenstein
everywhere I looked, people were smiling, like convicts who had just staged a daring escape and couldn't quite believe they had gotten away with it.
~ Chris Mitchell
Anything which binds the child of God and makes him a slave to the senses is not the true gospel. If you have to feel the oil on your forehead or have a handkerchief laid on you to invoke what God has already given to you freely in Christ, you are in bondage to the senses!
~ Chris Oyakhilome
Bugüne dek benim avucumun içinde bir y?ld?z gibi sakl? duruyordun. Bugün parmaklar?m? aç?p seni serbest b?rak?yorum. Ya par?lda ya da ortadan kaybol.
~ Christian Jacq
not far beneath the surface appearance of happy, liberated emerging adult sexual adventure and pleasure lies a world of hurt, insecurity, confusion, inequality, shame, and regret.
~ Christian Smith
Throwing the leg of lamb out the window may have been Aunt Carol's outward expression of the process going on within her soul: the reclaiming of herself. Perhaps it was her way of saying how tired she was of waiting on her family, of signaling to them that she was past the cook/chauffeur/dishwasher stage of life. For many women, if not most, part of this reclamation process includes getting in touch with anger and, perhaps, blowing up at loved ones for the first time.
~ Christiane Northrup
People take sex far too seriously.
~ Christina Aguilera
To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free
~ Christina Aguilera
Toute démarche qui tend à nous faire mieux accepter les contraintes sociales est dangereuse, et ne peut en aucun cas être qualifiée de "libératrice". C'est pourquoi la "revalorisation du corps des femmes", sans autre précision, est un projet extrêmement ambigu.
~ Christine Delphy
Dans l'immédiat on peut poser que la libération des femmes ne se fera sans la destruction totale du système de production et de reproduction patriarcale.
~ Christine Delphy
L'abolition des rapports de production capitaliste en soi ne suffit pas à libérer les femmes ; [il faut] se constituer en force politique autonome.
~ Christine Delphy
Our work is a scream of freedom.
~ Christo
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.
~ Christopher Bram
There hadn't come a day when she consciously decided, sod it, I'm past caring about clothes and hairstyles and make-up, but the evidence suggested she'd reached that position nonetheless.
~ Christopher Brookmyre