Liberated Quotes - Page 8

• ... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

  Albert Einstein

  Selfish, Feelings, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

  Arthur Miller

  God, Children, Believe

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• Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Two, Feet, People

  "Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times".

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• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

  Israel Shenker

  Hero, Self, Passionate

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Eye, Giving, Political

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• They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'

  Michel de Certeau

  Beautiful, Mean, Order

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.

  Masahisa Goi

  Self, Forever, Existence

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• While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

  Nicholson Baker

  Writing, Would Be, Pseudonyms

  "Nicholson Baker: 'Writing this book was the most fun I ever had'" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

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• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Mind, Copying, Looks

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• I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

  Lance Bass

  Whole Life, Whole

  "Lance Bass of *NSYNC Reveals He's Gay". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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• We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

  Pauline Collins

  Thinking, Media

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• Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.

  Francis William Aston

  Dream, Stars, Mean

  Nobel Lecture, 1922.

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• There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

  Richard Perle

  Small Numbers, Iraq, People

  "Turkey at the Crossroads". Luncheon keynote speech at a AEI conference, www.aei.org, September 22, 2003.

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• When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

  Leven Rambin

  Ocean, Thinking, Email

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Latin, Necks, Latin Women

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• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

  Timothy Leary

  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Soul, Quality

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• For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

  Paul the Apostle

  Children, Pain, Frustration

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• One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

  Edgar Degas

  Invention, Tyranny, Recollection

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• What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Real, Order, Color

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• Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Simple

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• I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Want, Inspired, Achieve

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• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Jesus, Kindness

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• There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Liberation, Whole

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