Liberation Quotes - Page 24

• Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Shining, Mind

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• For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.

  Radhanath Swami

  Doors, Ends, Devotee

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• I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean, these cases you've mentioned are cases in point, but the most extreme case was the liberation of Africa. Take the case of Angola for example, and there are real connections between Cuba and Angola-much of the Cuban population comes from Angola.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her]Eleanor Roosevelt], because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  New York, Years, Despair

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

  Ross McKitrick

  Earth, Hours, Social

  "Earth Hour: A Dissent". wattsupwiththat.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Mind, Suffering

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• It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Discovery

  "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

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• From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Color, Differences

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• Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.

  Germaine Greer

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Father, Self

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.116, Multnomah

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• Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. And when you are able to maintain an inner balance, you can choose to act in ways that will create happiness for you and for others. Living each moment happily with an equanimous mind, you will surely progress toward the ultimate goal of liberation from all suffering.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Goal, Mind

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• Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Form, Destined, Enslavement

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.45, Weiser Books

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• The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our multinational country, As long as we feel this unity inside us, Russia will be invincible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Different Nationalities

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• Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Men, Berlin, Architecture

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• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt 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

  Self, Musical, Want

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• The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud. Marx showed the moving powers and the conflicts in the social-historical process. Freud aimed at the critical uncovering of the inner conflicts. Both worked for the liberation of man, even though Marx's concept was more comprehensive and less time-bound than Freud's.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Men, Two

  Erich Fromm (1992). “The art of being”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• 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

  Passion, Creativity, Ambition

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• Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.

  John Keegan

  Mean, Men, Liberty

  John Keegan (2012). “A History of Warfare”, p.94, Vintage

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• Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

  Ann Druyan

  Knowing, Profound, Empowerment

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, History, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1971). “The New Left: the Anti-Industrial Revolution”

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• Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Fundamentals, Movement, Demand

  Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon (2006). “Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism”, p.1111, Indiana University Press

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• Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Philosophy, Men, Expression

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.18, AK Press

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• Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Banking, World

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

  Paulo Freire

  Dehumanization, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Divided

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Peace, War, Sound

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