Liberating Quotes - Page 8

• I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Evil, Chimera

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Fall

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, States

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (pp. 119-120), 1963.

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• Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

  Robert Fisk

  Two, Tanks, Kind

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• I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

  Sara Blakely

  Thinking, Way, Perceive

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• we can wake up one morning and find that the technology of this virtual, inter-connected world wasn't the liberating force we thought, but binds us ever more tightly under the control of the money men.

  Anita Roddick

  Morning, Men, Technology

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating.

  Ruth Rendell

  Loss, Disaster, Worst

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• The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  God, Healing, Self

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• I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

  Misha Collins

  Fire, Self, People

  "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Bad Day, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.

  Eula Biss

  Real, Reading, Book

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• I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Fun, Skills, Acting

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• Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

  Ludwig Lewisohn

  Men, Democracy, Majority

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• The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

  Jann Arden

  Responsibility, Fearless, Firsts

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• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  Earle Brown

  Art, Degrees, Cages

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, ‎Joseph Darby, ‎Matthew Santa, 1996.

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• You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Black, Trying

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• The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Earth, Enlightened

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• I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

  Leonard Orr

  Realization, Fantastic, Valuable

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• The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

  Dave Eggers

  Stories, Pressure, Kind

  "Dave Eggers on 'Max at Sea'" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Ideas, Telling The Truth, Whole

  "Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

  Simon Baker

  Television, Sometimes, Grind

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

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• You know the most important thing the Americans did for Iraq apart from liberating the country from Saddam was helping Iraq reduce its debt. The United States worked very hard to reduce 80 percent of Iraqi debt.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Country, Iraq, Important

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• It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

  Dido Armstrong

  People, Decision, Goes On

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• There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  Following

  "‘Game of Thrones’ star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau keeps homicidal streak alive in ‘Headhunters’ " by Ethan Sacks, www.nydailynews.com. April 28, 2012.

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