Liberation Quotes

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. View quote
Golda Meir
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
How can the oppressed, as divided unauthentic beings, participate in the pedagogy of their liberation? View quote
Paulo Freire
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
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. View quote
Mark Kingwell
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. View quote
Albert Einstein
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. (Leon Jouhaux)
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. View quote
Theodore Bikel
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. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing). View quote
J. G. Ballard
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. View quote
Vasily Chuikov
What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain. View quote
Alexander Blok
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building. View quote
Paulo Freire
Indeed, some revolutionaries brand as innocents, dreamers, or even reactionaries; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men. View quote
Paulo Freire
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. (Paulo Freire)
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. View quote
Paulo Freire
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. View quote
Paulo Freire
We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj