Quotes About Liberation

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

So if meditation did liberate you from obedience to these feelings, it would be, in a certain sense, dispelling an illusion—the illusion you implicitly subscribe to when you follow the feeling, the illusion that the rage, and for that matter the revenge it inspires, is fundamentally "good." It turns out the feeling isn't even good in the basic sense of self-interest.

He probably was happy, too, to get away from his mother!)

When I hear girls I know longing to be what they call liberated, and when I hear others rejoicing in what they think of as liberation, I feel a fool, because I simply do not know where I stand. (Maria Magdalena Theotoky)

mantra is a phrase that is designed to free the mind.

The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.' When you dare to get out of your circle of comfort and explore the unknown, you start to liberate your true human potential. This is the first step towards self-mastery and mastery over every other circumstance in your life. When you push beyond your limits, just as you did in this little demonstration, you unlock mental and physical reserves that you never thought you had.

escondida en mí que pedía a gritos ser liberada y realizada. Lo que quiero decir es que todos tenemos cosas especiales que estamos destinados a

job that might be smothering your soul. Dealing with stressful worries and endless responsibilities that stifle your originality and steal your energy. Lusting after unimportant pursuits and hungry for the instant fulfillment of trivial desires, often driven by a technology that enslaves us instead of liberating us.

Y así, quizá por primera vez en su vida, prescindió de los grilletes de la razón y decidió confiar en su intuición. Se sentía más seguro así.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Liberation Theology led nowhere because it was neither a revolutionary nor a religious movement, but involved a weak, self-cancelling mixture of each.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Left-wing politics has discarded the revolutionary paradigm advanced by the New Left, in favour of bureaucratic routines and the institutionalization of the welfare culture. The two goals of liberation and social justice remain in place: but they are promoted by legislation, committees and government commissions empowered to root out the sources of discrimination. Liberation and social justice have been bureaucratized.

The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the liberty and equality advocated at the French Revolution. If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead, and what should we allow ourselves by way of constraining them?

The slaves had been liberated, and turned into morons.

The pursuit of abstract social justice goes hand in hand with the view that power struggles and relations of domination express the truth of our social condition, and that the consensual customs, inherited institutions and systems of law that have brought peace to real communities are merely the disguises worn by power. The goal is to seize that power, and to use it to liberate the oppressed, distributing all the assets of society according to the just requirements of the plan.

I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted.

Get down, get naked, get savage.

In the words of Frederick Douglass, "That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made him a citizen.

As he abandoned his fearful attitude toward the press, he loosened up, as if liberated by the change.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.

Being out felt great. Felt like freedom. Like all my life I'd had a slight headache. Not noticing until it was gone.