--- title: "12 Liberation Liberation Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 12 Liberation Liberation quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Liberation Liberation sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b73/frederick-lenz-8_awareness_the-awareness-of-liberation-is-not-liber_2533207.jpg" --- > [The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/the-awareness-of-liberation-is-not-liberation-the-awareness-of-time/) [Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b73/frederick-lenz-8_awareness_the-awareness-of-liberation-is-not-liber_2533207.jpg) > [There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/there-are-no-rules-nothing-you-can-do-will-take-you-to-liberation/) [Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0d/frederick-lenz-8_can-do_there-are-no-rules-nothing-you-can-do-wi_2455070.jpg) > [Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/women-s-liberation-is-the-liberation-of-the-feminine-in-the-man-and/) [Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bf/corita-kent-20084_feminine_women-s-liberation-is-the-liberation-of_1049775.png) > [We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/we-are-all-victims-of-the-violence-that-animals-suffer-their/) [George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/565/george-bernard-shaw-68_animal_we-are-all-victims-of-the-violence-that_255029.png) > [As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/as-with-all-forms-of-liberation-of-which-the-liberation-of-women-is/) [Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/jonathan-franzen-801_easy_as-with-all-forms-of-liberation-of-which_1821302.jpg) > [Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-romero/liberation-that-raises-a-cry-against-others-is-no-true-liberation/) [Oscar Romero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-romero/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fe/oscar-romero-12365_being-true_liberation-that-raises-a-cry-against-oth_2748392.jpg) > [According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-p-george/according-to-the-classic-liberal-arts-ideal-learning-promises/) [Robert P. George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-p-george/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2e/robert-p-george-44481_art_according-to-the-classic-liberal-arts-id_984045.jpg) > [...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-clinton/but-we-also-know-that-to-be-educated-the-goal-of-it-must-be-human/) [Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-clinton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58f/hillary-clinton-51_capacity_but-we-also-know-that-to-be-educated-the_2624000.jpg) > [“We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-a-romero/we-must-overturn-so-many-idols-the-idol-of-self-first-of-all-so-that-2/) [Oscar A. Romero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-a-romero/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/oscar-a-romero-73442_christ_we-must-overturn-so-many-idols-the-idol_2969812.jpg) > [“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adyashanti/as-long-as-you-perceive-that-anyone-is-holding-you-back-you-have-not/) [Adyashanti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adyashanti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/510/adyashanti-1169_absolutes_as-long-as-you-perceive-that-anyone-is-h_1815137.png) > [“LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth — not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-i-gurdjieff/liberation-leads-to-liberation-these-are-the-first-words-of-truth-not/) [G. I. Gurdjieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-i-gurdjieff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/g-i-gurdjieff-11640_freedom_liberation-leads-to-liberation-these-are_2688958.jpg) > [“After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-mercier/after-a-while-he-understood-that-he-was-experiencing-a-great/) [Pascal Mercier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-mercier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/110/pascal-mercier-4197_books_after-a-while-he-understood-that-he-was_311649.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liberation-liberation/#itemlist", "name": "Liberation Liberation Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The awareness of liberation is not liberation. 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Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others cannot be true liberty. True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar A. 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