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Quotes About Liberation

Para dewapun tak jarang belajar dari manusia, bahkan dibebaskan oleh manusia.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
retelling of India's political history as I have experienced it. The Dramatic Decade is the first of a trilogy; this book covers the period between 1969 and 1980. It begins with my entry into public life as a member of the Rajya Sabha and covers three epochal events—the war that led to the liberation
~ Pranab Mukherjee
I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.
~ Primo Levi
MUSIC IS THE ULTIMATE POWER LOVE IS SIMPLY THE MESSAGE AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE !!!
~ Prince
The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening. Then thought frees herself from the chains with which those interested — rulers, lawyers, clerics — have carefully enwound her.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
To emancipate woman is not only to open the gates of the university, the law courts or the parliaments to her, for the 'emancipated' woman will always throw domestic toil on to another woman. To emancipate woman is to free her from the brutalizing toil of the kitchen and wash-house; it is to organize your household in such a way as to enable her to rear her children, if she be so minded, while retaining sufficient leisure to take her share of social life.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
The price for freedom may be high, but the price that we pay for being imprisoned and cut off from the very root of our being is even higher.
~ Queen Afua
We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potentially liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
~ R. D. Laing
The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.
~ Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?
~ Rabih Alameddine
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I didn't write the history of my flight in the sky,, still I flew for sheer joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The cramped atmosphere of neglect oppressed Phatik so much that he felt that he could hardly breathe.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
At the slightest opportunity, Gora wanted to forcefully cast aside all constraints and prejudices, to come down to the level the general public, and declare with all his heart: 'I am yours, and you are mine!
~ Rabindranath Tagore
when people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else. In fact, the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them. Not changing, in other words, deprived them of what they'd gone to such trouble to attain (freedom).
~ Rachel Cusk
The one thing you can say about people for sure, is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.
~ Rachel Cusk
loss of control held new possibilities for me, as though it were itself a kind of freedom.
~ Rachel Cusk
The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.
~ Rachel Cusk
I said I wasn't sure: when people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else. But it didn't necessarily follow that to stay free was to stay the same. In fact, the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them. Not changing, in other words, deprived them of what they'd gone to such trouble to attain.
~ Rachel Cusk
Abraçou o conceito inteiro quase da noite para o dia: podia decidir como queria ser e então sê-lo. Não existia predestinação alguma; agora entendia que aquela noção de si mesmo como uma sina e uma maldição que havia pairado como uma mortalha sobre toda a sua vida podia ficar para trás.
~ Rachel Cusk
Now and again,' she continued presently, 'I have met people who have freed themselves from their family relationships. Yet there often seems to be a kind of emptiness in that freedom, as though in order to dispense with their relatives they have had to dispense with a part of themselves. Like the man trapped in the glacier who cut off his own arm,' she said, with a faint smile.
~ Rachel Cusk