Liberation Quotes - Page 30

• The music works by itself, but you can change the perception of it by the way you dress, the way you move, the things you say, the things you don't say. And when you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged. There's a kind of liberation to that.

  Nils Frahm

  Moving, Perception, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

  S. N. Goenka

  Vipassana, Misery, Bondage

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Healthy

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• Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Art, Giving, Illusion

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.307, Profile Books

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• A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

  Barbara Deming

  Strength, Movement, Wells

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Color, Drawing

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

  Max Perutz

  Success, Science, Technology

  "The Impact of Science on Society: The Challenge for Education". "Science and Technology and Future Human Needs" by J. L. Lewis and P. J. Kelly, 1987.

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• The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheism, World

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• Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?

  Bob Hope

  America, Support, Complaining

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• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  Balthus

  Struggle, Self, Criticism

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• Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

  Angela Carter

  Culture, Language And Power, Instruments

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

  Corita Kent

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Feminism

  1974 In the Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul.

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• Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Understanding, Suffering

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• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Smile, Girl, Dream

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by commercial firms that profit by supplying laboratory animals and equipment, have been able to convince legislators and the public that opposition comes from uninformed fanatics who consider the interests of animals more important than the interests of human beings.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Long, Important

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• If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

  Lilla Watson

  Work, Volunteer, Community

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• What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

  Carl Sagan

  Caring, Thinking, Wind

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". TV Series (Episode 11: The Persistence of Memory), 1990.

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• "Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."

  Billy Graham

  People, Adoption, News

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.

  Rajneesh

  Freedom, Flower, Space

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• Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

  Allan Bloom

  Prejudice, Reason, Form

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Dog, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

  Russell M. Nelson

  Strong, Passion, Self

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• Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  Henry Spira

  Animal, Feelings, Suffering

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• Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

  Dogen

  Truth, Sitting, Gateways

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