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Quotes About Liberation

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.
~ Lajos Kossuth
Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".
~ Steven Magee
It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.
~ Azar Nafisi
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
~ Dorothy Thompson
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.
~ James Tiptree Jr.
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
~ S. N. Goenka
Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness
~ Nhat Hanh
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
~ Joyce Grenfell
Break open the forbidden happiness.
~ Rob Brezsny
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
~ Lauren Oliver
Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
~ Paula McLain
The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit.
~ Asa Don Brown
One fine day I stopped caring about what others think, and oh boy, I've loved every moment of life since then.
~ Kiran Bisht
The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Somehow, we each create our own prison, for which only we, hold the key to freedom.
~ Sue J Daniels
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
~ Edward Snowden
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.
~ Robert F. Williams
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
~ Frederick Douglass
The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.
~ Benedetto Croce
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.
~ Gertrude Himmelfarb