Best Liberation Thoughts
581 Liberation quotes by 387 unique authors
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I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find…
— Fred Hoyle
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If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult…
— Asger Jorn
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A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such…
— Huineng
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The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.…
— Laozi
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There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.
— Jack Canfield
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In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for allowing Shiites and…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
— Paulo Freire
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Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from…
— Paulo Freire
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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
— Paulo Freire
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How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of…
— Paulo Freire
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In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a…
— Paulo Freire
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The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
— Gustavo Gutiérrez
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When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating…
— Novalis
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Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it…
— Samael Aun Weor
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I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances,…
— Pico Iyer
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In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And…
— Shulamith Firestone
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I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation
— Susie Bright
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Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration…
— Aurora Levins Morales
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Communism:Â Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty
— Rick Bayan
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It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
— C.D. Wright
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