Quotes About Emancipation

Why are you taking your breasts away?" -Dane "Cernunnos" Hearne

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

He considered personality to be an achievement, not something given. Moreover, it was essentially an achievement of the second half of life. In the first half of life, a person is, and should be, concerned with emancipating himself from parents and with establishing himself in the world as spouse, parent and effective contributor.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

The truth wouldn't set me free. I'd only end up like my father.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing.

I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. By witnessing physical grace, the soul comes to understand and love beauty. Seeing people compete courageously and fairly helps emancipate the individual by educating his passions.

Some people who fancy themselves intellectually emancipated—who think themselves liberated from what they call a stultifying cultural inheritance—actually reside in what G. K. Chesterton called "the clean, well-lit prison of one idea.

Enlightenment is the emancipation of man from a state of self-imposed tutelage... of incapacity to use his own intelligence without external guidance. Such a state of tutelage I call 'self-imposed' if it is due, not to lack of intelligence, but to lack of courage or determination to use one's own intelligence without the help of a leader. Sapere aude! Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the battle-cry of the Enlightenment.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.

It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.

His house of cards had collapsed, and he lay among the ruins—but he was free. He felt euphoric, weightless, years younger. The only thing he missed was Indiana, but she too belonged to the past; she too had been carried off by the wind.

Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.

Dance. Dance, Zarité. The slave who dances is free while he is dancing.' He told me. I have always danced.

la emancipación de las mujeres, que han tomado por asalto el mundo de los hombres. Tuvimos que actuar como ellos, aprender sus tácticas y competir.

I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.

Baila, baila, Zarité, porque esclavo que baila es libre… mientras baila

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.