Emancipation Quote by Georges Bataille Download Open image “To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.” — Georges Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emancipation Evil Freedom Inspirational Restraint
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way. — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil. — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass. I rediscover indifference (allowing her to leave me) when I fall asleep, through an inability to love what happens. It is impossible for her to know whom she will discover when I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Pathetic creatures on their knees... Tirelessly, naively repeating, "Don't take our word for it! Alas, we're not all that logical. We say God–though in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man… Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts,… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
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