Liberated Quotes - Page 2

• The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of responsibility; it had liberated people from the chimera of conscience.

  Vasily Grossman

  Taken, Responsibility, People

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• The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mistake, Army, Order

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Technology, Curves, Sensual

  Oscar Niemeyer (2000). “The curves of time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer”, Phaidon Press

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• History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Righteous, Teach

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Oct 02, 2016

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• Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

  Carolyn Cassady

  Moving, Book, Cities

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• You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

  Romain Rolland

  Art, Fighting, People

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• The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Fashion, Sex

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• A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

  Gloria Steinem

  Marriage, Jobs, Sex

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• We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Sex, Children, America

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• A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessing, Mind

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• If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Men

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• Romans says the creation was 'subjected to frustration, in hope that it will be liberated from its bondage to decay.' In hope! There is hope for the earth. As Christians, we can and should have hope for the earth, as well as our hope of heaven.

  Howard A Snyder

  Christian, Frustration, Should Have

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• With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

  Steven Kotler

  Self, Insecurity, Doubt

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• Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.

  Nathaniel Dean

  People, Mind, Events

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• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Social Values, Workplace

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House

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• Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.

  Gangaji

  Self, Games, Play

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• We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Spiritual, Struggle, People

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.63, Penguin

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• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  Fay Wray

  Thinking, Feel Good, Experience

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• The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

  Patanjali

  Inspirational, Life, Opposites

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• The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated. . . . It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Thinking, Mind, Moksha

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

  Bettie Page

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013

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• When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

  Romain Gary

  War, Loser, Winner

  "Tulipe". Book by Romain Gary, 1946.

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• People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

  John Darnielle

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  John Darnielle (2008). “Black Sabbath's Master of Reality”, p.75, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Long Walk To Freedom, Wells, Oppressed

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2016

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• No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

  Hermann Broch

  Inspirational, Soul, Impression

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