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Quotes About Liberation

Under the magic of the Dionysian, not only does the bond between man and man lock itself in place once more, but also nature itself, no matter how alienated, hostile, or subjugated, rejoices again in her festival of reconciliation with her prodigal son, man. The earth freely offers up her gifts, and the beasts of prey from the rocks and the desert approach in peace. The wagon of Dionysus is covered with flowers and wreaths; under his yolk stride panthers and tigers.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art thou one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke? Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude. Free from what? What doth that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I pray God to deliver me from God !
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
özgürlüÄŸün elde edildiÄŸinin iÅŸareti, yani art?k kendimizden utanm?yor olmak.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Willing liberates: for willing is creating: thus I teach. And you should learn solely in order to create!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
art it is easier to go over to a really emancipating philosophical science.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the seal of liberation?— No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
cette volonté de partir ne me semblait pas venir de moi seule. Souvent elle me paraissait émaner de générations en arrière de moi ayant usé dans d'obscures existences injustes l'élan de leur âme et qui à travers ma vie poussaient enfin à l'accomplissement de leur libération. Serait-ce donc le vieux rêve de mon enfance, qui me tenait toujours, de venger les miens par le succès ?
~ Gabrielle Roy
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
~ Kara Swisher
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
~ Epictetus
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
~ E. Y. Harburg
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
~ Edwin Arnold
I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.
~ Sadie Frost
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
~ Franz Kafka
I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.
~ Lisa Madigan
'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
~ Ziggy Marley
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
~ Margaret Mead
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
~ Angela Davis
The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.
~ Monica Bellucci
Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.
~ Kevin McDonald
Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
~ Lucille Ball