Liberation Quotes - Page 16

• It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.

  Joanna Macy

  Pain, Home, Play

  "World as Lover, World as Self". Book by Joanna Macy, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1991.

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• There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Doe, Existential, Slave

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.99, Open Road Media

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• Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Learning, Ignorance, Doe

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Cat, Gay

  "Clinical Notes". The American Mercury (January 1924), p. 75; later quoted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Fourth Series", 1924.

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• The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Attachment, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

  Thomas Frank

  Focus, Computer, Internet

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• The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Mean, Organization, Everyday

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• No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Danger, Starving, Hostage

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.85, Knopf

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• Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Understanding, Done

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 8”, p.69, M A Center

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• One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.

  Laura Mulvey

  Study Group, Feminist, Political

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Heart, Night

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

  Jane Rule

  Education, Aggravation, Messages

  Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Government, Aggravation, People

  "Letter to Louis Kossuth: Concerning Freedom and Slavery in the United States".

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• At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

  Janis Joplin

  Thinking, Ems, Chicks

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• Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Philosophy, Mean, Perspective

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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Israel, Agreement, Organization

  Abbas UN speech: Annotated extracts, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2011.

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• This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.

  George H. W. Bush

  August, Kuwait, Oil

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• Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

  Willie Nelson

  Evil, Want, Way

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• The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

  Glenn Greenwald

  People, Promise, Way

  "Glenn Greenwald: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.

  Krishna Das

  Giving, Desire, Hanuman

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won't feel they're human anymore, to be proved wrong because that's the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Heart, Opportunity, Realization

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• The National Liberation Front was not...a viable, autonomous organization with a life of its own; it was a facade, a "front," by means of which the DLD (the North Vietnamese Communist Party) sought to mobilize the people in the South to accomplish its ends, and to garner international sympathy and support.

  George Allen

  War, Party, Mean

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• Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

  Karl Marx

  Uprising, India, Rebel

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• So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Discovery

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