Quotes About Liberation

One of the best things about sex with a Banshee, however, is that she will make her needs known freely.

You are free, you just don't know it ~Michael to Sarah

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

Un tempo gli uomini dedicavano il proprio pensiero alle macchine, nella speranza che esse li avrebbero liberati. Ma questo consentì ad altri uomini di servirsi delle macchine per renderli schiavi.

La maggior parte delle discipline nascondono effetti negativi, essendo concepite non per liberare, bensì per limitare. Non chiedete Perché? E siate cauti col Come? Perché? conduce inesorabilmente al paradosso. Come? v'intrappola in un universo di causa ed effetto. Entrambi negano l'infinito. Gli Apocrifi di Arrakis

Freedom lies within.

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced.

The moment He set me free is the moment He captured me.

When Henry Ford invented the Model-T, women shed their bloomers and put sex on the road.

Philosophy couldn't emancipate the mind, but technology just might. Google has set out to succeed where Descartes failed, except that it has jettisoned all the philosophical questions that rattled around in his head. Where Descartes emphasized skepticism and doubt, Google is never plagued by second-guessing. It has turned the liberation of the brain into an engineering challenge—an exercise that often fails to ask basic questions about the human implications of the project.

Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

In the mountains our throats become free. It's a wonder we don't break into song.

His escape is ultimately doomed by his utter devotion to his family, which never diminishes. The guilt brought on by Gregor's newfound inability to provide for his family- financially and emotionally- prevents him from attaining any sort of liberation. Perhaps recognizing this conundrum, Gregor chooses to remain an insect.

Šta je? Šta je' povikah, još snom prikovan za krevet, i ispružih ruku na gore. Potom ustadoh,još zadugo bez svesti o sadašnjosti, i imah ose?aj kao da moram da odgurnem nekoliko ljudi koji su me sputavali; ?ak i napravih odgovaraju?e pokrete rukama, i kona?no do?oh do otvorenog prozora.

Kafka saw his tuberculosis as a liberation; interestingly, he called it the animal.

At the expense of Gregor's sacrifice, the sister, at the end of the story, stretches her arrogant body and gets the liberation Gregor longed for. Under Gregor's care first, and then her parents', the sister enjoys a healthy childhood, one leading to physical and mental development, and one in which she isn't trapped. Yet our loyalty to Gregor extends even beyond death, and his sister's cheery success story offers but a bitter pill

I am free, that is why I am lost.

O mundo prodigioso que tenho na cabeça. Mas como me libertar e libertá-lo sem me dilacerar? E antes de ser mil vezes dilacerado do que retê-lo em mim ou enterrá-lo. Estou aqui para isso, dou-me perfeitamente conta.

Um livro deve ser o machado para o mar congelado dentro de nós.