Liberating Quotes

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. (Don DeLillo)
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. View quote
John Updike
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. View quote
Kofi Annan
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. View quote
Earle Brown
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information. View quote
Paulo Freire
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. View quote
James Baldwin
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized. View quote
Conan O'Brien
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. (Salma Hayek)
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. View quote
Paulo Freire
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. It's very empowering, and I've learned a lot of that from Jay-Shawn Carter-Z, because his approach to life is very internal. It's a very good lesson to learn. source. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
[J]amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do. View quote
Kalle Lasn
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change. View quote
Shari Arison
Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. View quote
Brad Blanton
Facebook seems to think that it would be liberating if everyone's News Feed could be personalized so that people see only and exactly what they want. Don't believe it. That's a prison. View quote
Cass Sunstein
When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego. (Thandie Newton)
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set. View quote
Bill Paxton
There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others. View quote
Bob Kerrey
It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way. View quote
Dido Armstrong
The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing. View quote
Geri Halliwell