Quotes About Liberation

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

Man's dearest possession in life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as not to be seared with the shame of a cowardly and trivial past, so live as not to be tortured for years without purpose, so live that dying he can say: "All my life and my strength were given to the first cause of the world—the liberation of mankind.

That's why history is so important, because if our children had been taught correctly, they would have a burning spirit for freedom, liberation, and self-actualization.

There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.

For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading to clinging leading to suffering and so on. Nibbana, or nirvana, was not originally conceived as some magical heavenly world, or even a permanent altered state of consciousness. It is usually described, in the early texts, negatively: as a candle being snuffed out.

But not for Jefferson. "I view cities as pestilent to the morals, the health, and the liberation of man

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Discipline is of no use whatsoever, since things are naturally eliminated by discernment without it being necessary for us to treat them brutally. Even in the course of the technique known as "letting-go", a faint shadow of discipline is implied, for letting-go of an object implies a certain discipline. Only an effortless and choiceless, I repeat choiceless reaction, is the hallmark of liberation.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

God break me out of this stiff life I've made

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

The problem with having so many naked women trying to hump me senseless was… Actually, there was no problem with it at all.

That if they could not have a fierce joy in their struggle, then they were not truly free but governed by fear and doubt.

Dead astronauts were no different than living astronauts. Neither could shed their skin. Neither could ever become part of what they journeyed through. Suits were premade coffins. Space was the grave. Better to think of yourself as dead already. There was freedom in that; liberated the mind to roam quadrants farther than the body.

At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side. The

At the gate, the sign proclaimed that work meant freedom.

He was silent. "Let's be evacuated with the others," I said. He didn't answer. He was looking at my foot. "You think you'll be able to walk?" "Yes, I think so." "Let's hope we won't regret it, Eliezer."     AFTER THE WAR, I learned the fate of those who had remained at the infirmary. They were, quite simply, liberated by the Russians, two days after the evacuation.     I

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.