Quotes About Liberation

If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.

Anything that liberates is not without risk.

The second decade of the twenty-first century—just 150 years after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Karl-Maria Kurtbeny, early LGBT rights theorists, ignited the idea of same-sex freedom in 1868—we find ourselves in a heady, global maelstrom of unimaginable liberation and continued stark oppression.

Our way of life is inherently based on masters and slaves. We bow to assorted Gods, like slaves bowing to masters. We bow to monarchs and presidents, to the rich, to celebrities. We never tire of bowing to others and getting on our knees. We are controlled at every turn. Isn't it time to unshackle ourselves, to stand up straight for once? Isn't it time to bring an end to the master-slave dialectic?

My desires dropped away. I didn't long for anything. I didn't even have a name. To put it romantically, I was completely free.

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

Power cannot survive when its subjects free themselves from fear.

True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.

Faith, therefore, is a liberation that is also an incorporation, specifically an incorporation into Christ the new lord, and into his body.

Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and brings them into the powerful sphere of Christ's benevolent lordship and community.

The function of propaganda is to make evil look good, the demonic divine, violence like peacemaking, tyranny and oppression like liberation. It makes blind, unquestioning allegiance appear to be freely chosen, religiously appropriate devotion.

Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.

Audie could stare into the distance like he was looking across an ocean, or watching sparks floating above a campfire. He could make a cell seem like it had no walls.

There is a powerful sense of liberation in Wells's stories, but it does not stem from political ideas; it comes from the realization that the world is capable of dramatic change and transformation. Habit and routine are ripped aside to reveal a stranger, more exciting universe than we had been led to expect.

Everyone knows the feeling of excitement on discovering a book that unlocks the imagination; it enables us to inhabit another world - of heightened language, thought and ideas. Great literature holds the seed of a kind of liberation that remains with us throughout life

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

o espaço nunca é tão urbanizado que não se acabe por descobrir um local imprevisto onde o tempo se liberta dos constrangimentos normais

Nu avea un discurs de psihiatru tipic, în fine, era suportabil. Îmi amintesc c?-mi sugera s? m? "eliberez de leg?turi"; p?rea mai curând o tr?nc?neal? budist?. Ce s? eliberez? Toat? fiinÈ›a mea era o leg?tur?.

Después de agotar los placeres sexuales, era normal que los individuos liberados de las obligaciones morales ordinarias se entregasen a los placeres, más intensos, de la crueldad.

Os homens não podem dispor de uma capacidade para o prazer para que ela seja depreciada, proibida e reprimida.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.