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Liberation is not deliverance. -- Victor Hugo
Freeing oneself from words is liberation. -- Bodhidharma
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that. -- Eckhart Tolle
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world. -- Nelson Mandela
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation. -- Alex Grey
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people. -- Louis Farrakhan
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! -- Anthony de Mello
If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army. -- Mao Zedong
Liberation does not come from outside. -- Gloria Steinem
Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone. -- Ramakrishna
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced. -- Toni Morrison
Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated. -- Ramana Maharshi
Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty -- Rick Bayan
I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front]. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. -- Arianna Huffington
Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me. -- Bette Davis
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. -- Francois Truffaut
Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz. -- Marianne Williamson
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice. -- Adyashanti
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent. -- Bill Keller
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected. -- Tom Clancy
Art of observing leads to intelligence. The intelligence leads to awareness. Awareness leads to liberation. Liberation leads to oneness. -- Abhinav Rajput
Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions. -- Bill Keller
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. -- Paulo Freire
The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions. -- Jiang Zemin
Liberation is the path of transcendence. Manifestation is the path of immanence. Both lead to the same place: the divine. -- Anodea Judith
In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist. -- Kola Boof
I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due. -- Loretta Lynn
When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation. -- Frederick Franck
Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue. -- Bertrand Russell
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you. -- Jaggi Vasudev
It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up. -- Subhas Chandra Bose
Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience. -- Marianne Williamson
Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy. -- Jeanne Moreau
Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle. -- Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement. -- Helen Lawrenson
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses. -- James Tiptree Jr.
Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd. -- Anthony de Mello
In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left. -- Marisha Pessl
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. -- Robin Morgan
I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women. -- Midge Decter
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Oscar Romero
The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong. -- Mao Zedong
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. -- Bruce Lee
I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large. -- Maeve Binchy
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.' -- Gautama Buddha
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within. -- Sandra Cisneros
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. -- Corita Kent
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. -- Wilhelm Reich
I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people. -- Richard Pryor
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. -- Alan Watts
Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation. -- Reb Anderson
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. -- Albert Einstein
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. -- R. D. Laing
People have to liberate themselves, because liberation is not a single act. It's a question of eternal vigilance. Otherwise, you'll just become enslaved by someone else. -- Norman Finkelstein
I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people. -- Jasmine Guy
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. -- W. Somerset Maugham
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. -- Archibald MacLeish
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. -- Sandra Cisneros
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create. -- Vandana Shiva
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. -- Angela Davis
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities? -- Peter Singer
In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it. -- Noam Chomsky
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. -- Robert Fisk
Should one break in and free the animals? That is illegal, but the obligation to obey the law is not absolute. It was justifiably broken by those who helped runaway slaves in the American South, to mention only one possible parallel. -- Peter Singer
I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. -- Nelson Mandela
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. -- Clara Zetkin
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. -- Michael Moore
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. -- Rachel Cusk
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality. -- Paulo Freire
You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you. -- Nhat Hanh
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. -- Edmund White
I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it. -- Rihanna
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation. -- Pico Iyer
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. -- Neil Strauss
Discipline is liberation. -- Martha Graham
Self-love is self liberation -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Freedom is a daring liberation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man! -- Michelle Rodriguez
Self-liberation is the greatest victory. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Without community, there is no liberation. -- Audre Lorde
Respect is heaven, respect is liberation. -- Ramakrishna
Education is liberation, knowledge is power. -- Henry Johnson Jr
South Africa needs a second liberation. -- Robert Mugabe
Humility is the key to liberation. -- Ma Jaya
Hope is the seed of liberation. -- Jon Sobrino
Women are enslaved by their own liberation. -- Susan Faludi
Self love and forgiveness is a liberation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
National liberation is necessarily an act of culture -- Amilcar Cabral
Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American. -- Douglas Brinkley
I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation. -- Michelle Shocked
There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. -- Gloria Steinem
Maturity and experience are part of my liberation. -- Alicia Keys
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots. -- Marvin Olasky
The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only. -- Jesse Jackson
Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal -- Bobby Sands
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation. -- Dogen
the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation -- Albert Einstein
Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. -- Warren Farrell
It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead. -- Susie Bright
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation. -- John F. Kennedy
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation. -- Henri Matisse
... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation. -- Susie Orbach
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. -- Muqtada al Sadr
The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable. -- Alberto Fujimori
The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.... -- Mary Daly
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. -- Tom Robbins
Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow. -- Jay Michaelson

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