Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?"
Liberation quotes
Liberation
87 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oscar Romero
Archbishop, Activist
"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone."
Meryl Streep
Actress, Producer
"There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it."
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"Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated."
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"What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself."
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"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me."
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"Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises."
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"The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."
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"I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal."
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"For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything."
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"I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others."
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"The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors."
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"Respect is heaven, respect is liberation."
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"This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging."
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"Discipline is liberation."
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"I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris."
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"No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death."
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"Maturity and experience are part of my liberation."
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"I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man."
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"If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation."
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