Liberation Quotes - Page 19

• Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

  Warren Farrell

  Identity, Males, Midlife

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Fashion, Father

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• Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.

  Andy Partridge

  Singing, Doorways, Ships

  Song: Me And The Wind

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• All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

  Mark Kingwell

  Wall, Struggle, Space

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.174, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.

  Barry N. Malzberg

  Years, Self, Deception

  Barry N. Malzberg (2007). “Breakfast in the Ruins”, p.207, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Love, Struggle, Heaven

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• 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

  Hands, Evil, World

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 22, 1985.

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• I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

  Pierre Schaeffer

  Different, Tone, Modern

  Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete, vol. 2, n° 1, 1987.

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• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

  George Santayana

  War, Ambition, Buddhism

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• In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Compassion, Self

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• I am proud of the decision of this Administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis. And I'm proud to see an Iraq that is now emerging with a stronger government, a truly multiethnic, multi-sectarian government that's about to have its second set of elections, that's inviting private investment into Iraq, and that is making peace with its Arab neighbors.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Government, Iraq, Decision

  Interview With Judy Woodruff of Bloomberg TV, July 1, 2008.

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• Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Acceptance, Consciousness, Samadhi

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• Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Boards, Gone

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• The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

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• There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Tools, Used

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• There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Meditation, Path

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• In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Study, Breaking Down

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• Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.

  Kim Jong Il

  Country, Heart, Class

  "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea". Speech on the occasion of the 165th birthday of Karl Marx and the Centenary of his death, May 03, 1983.

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• If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Buddhism

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• People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Self

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• Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Finals

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• Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Humorous, Gay

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• Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

  John Dewey

  Wisdom, Thinking, Distribution Of Power

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.362, SIU Press

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• The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

  Jon Elster

  Men, Goal, Social

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• 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

  Needs, Social, Herds

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