Break Quote by Gerald Stern

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves…

— Mary Daly

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

— Bodhidharma

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

— Mark Doty

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

— Diane Setterfield

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

— Goldie Hawn

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used…

— Noam Chomsky

“Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle…

— David Sedaris

“A man can be standing on the outside and completely imprisoned on the inside." "Freedom is not the absence of constraints. It is the…

— Ibrahim B. Amunikoro

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

— Ramana Maharshi

Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.

— Amy Hill Hearth

Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision.

— Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen