Quotes About Liberation

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

When rewritten in terms of the real world instead of the mysterious world of Mind, it made sense. 'Mind' was read as 'human self-consciousness'. The goal of history became the liberation of humanity; but this could not be achieved until the religious illusion had been overcome.

When history looks back, do you want to be counted among the oppressors? Or among the liberators? You've got to make that choice.

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What a tragic world this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a prison, and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. Because that is why I am here. To burn the walls, to tear down the metal gates, to break each chain.

She felt loose and free and light in a universe without purpose.

I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.

Als Christin hatte sie sich zugehörig gefühlt. Nach ihrem Austritt aus der Kirche war sie unendlich frei gewesen, aber auch ohne Halt in einem Universum ohne Zweck.

Thatcher forged consent through the cultivation of a middle class that relished the joys of home ownership, private property, individualism, and the liberation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

As the Khmer Rouge were about to take over, Noam Chomsky wrote that their advent heralded a Cambodian liberation, "a new era of economic development and social justice." The new era turned out to be the killing-fields that took the lives of two million Cambodians.

Not at all," Fourrier said, claiming that he had always believed that the physician was sending people to freedom. Massu, after the interview, felt a sudden need for a shower.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

We want to whisper to him that the only way to free yourself from shame is to realize how completely arbitrary it is—just what he was saying a day ago.

If you're not able to laugh inside a sex shop, then you probably shouldn't be there. I mean, they don't call it fooling around for nothing.

sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore

embracing the wind.

He is tired, but he's free. He is living, because he's in motion.

I have to let go of some other things in order not to crash right into the ground. I no longer give a fuck. I mean, I didn't think I gave a fuck before. But that was amateur not-giving-afuck. This is stop-at-nothing, don't-give-a-fuck freedom.

Thus, the process is "to die before you die," as stated in many religious traditions. That is, once you face your certain death, that repressed fear of death no longer runs you. Nothing scares you anymore. Fear is a big stack, and at the bottom of that stack is the fear of physical death.

The truth is liberating—but only when you have the courage to live it.

Thus the approach of death can sometimes lead to a kind of liberation. In its shadow, life suddenly takes on an intensity, resonance, and savor we may never have known before.

Siempre quiso ver en la excitada modernidad de aquellos años en Madrid la explosión de un montón de reprimidos llegados de provincias que en la capital podían arrancase la máscara sin que sus padres, ni sus parientes, ni sus vecinos del pueblo pudieran verlos. El anonimato de la gran ciudad es lo único que nos permitió ser libres.

he would have repeatedly encountered irresistible words such as "freedom," "liberty," "tyranny," and the "rights of man." 19 Well before he read any serious history, he garnered and cherished a vocabulary of liberation.