Liberated Quotes:

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

- Dan Quayle

source: Dan Quayle's remarks during his campaign in Kansas City, Missouri (September 2, 1992), as quoted in The New York Times, September 3, 1992.

topic: Essentials, Want, Liberated

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Insight, Liberation, Liberated

Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.

- Meister Eckhart

topic: Looks, Caught, Liberated

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

- Russell Means

topic: Want, Civilized, Liberated

Obedience leads to true freedom. The more we obey revealed truth, the more we become liberated.

- James E. Faust

topic: Obedience, True Freedom, Liberated

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Way, Segregation, Liberated

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

- Theodor Adorno

source: Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.211, Verso

topic: Decay, Blind, Satire, Liberated

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

- Carl T. Rowan

topic: Education, War, Book, Liberated, Libraries And Librarians

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Order, Meditation, Path, Liberated

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating

- Muso Soseki

topic: Helping Others, May, Awakening, Liberated

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

- Daniel H. Pink

source: Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.71, Penguin

topic: Self, People, Determined, Liberated

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Pride, Attachment, Volcanoes, Liberated, Whirlpools

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.  She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened.  As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.  But we human beings are not like dogs.  We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble.  If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

- Joko Beck

topic: Dog, Blessing, Thinking, Liberated, Self Centered

The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it.

- Ghada al-Samman

topic: Believe, Men, Clothes, Liberated, Liberated Woman

The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.

- Theodor Herzl

source: Theodor Herzl, Ludwig Lewisohn (1955). “Theodor Herzl: a portrait for this age”

topic: Home, Greatness, Men, Liberated

This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do: That is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.

- Neville Chamberlain

source: Neville Chamberlain's Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. September 3, 1939.

topic: Sacrifice, Europe, Victory, Liberated, Public Life

Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Talk at the University of Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

topic: Country, Religious, Children, Liberated, Fundamentalist

Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Communication, Stories, Spirituality, Liberated

The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

- Mikhail Bakunin

topic: Stars, Blood, Sea, Liberated

The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Fighting, Humans, Liberated, Always Fighting

The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.

- Hermann Broch

source: Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.887, Vintage

topic: Men, Style, Individual, Liberated

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

- Primo Levi

topic: This Day, Lager, Liberated

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.

- Randolph Bourne

source: Randolph Silliman Bourne (1919). “Untimely Papers”

topic: Dominance, Passing, Genuine, Liberated, Genuine Life

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

- Robert Fisk

topic: Mean, Thinking, Cities, Different Ideas, Liberated

Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

- William Stringfellow

topic: Religious, Mean, Godly, Liberated, Exemplary

If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.

- Dainin Katagiri

source: Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

topic: Emotional, Ideas, Space, Intersections, Time And Space

If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Civilization, Vision, Arbitrary, Liberated, Reconsideration

I don't really want to say need because to me--an aggressive, liberated woman--need sounds too pathetic. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe need and want sometimes go together. Maybe I do need and want a man. *************************************************************************************************************************************

- Phyllis Hyman

topic: Men, Together, Sound, Liberated, Liberated Woman

One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.

- Josephine Baker

topic: Country, Paris, White, Liberated

The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of responsibility; it had liberated people from the chimera of conscience.

- Vasily Grossman

topic: Taken, Responsibility, People, Chimera, Liberated

The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.nobelprize.org

topic: Mistake, Army, Order, Colonels, Liberated

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

- Oscar Niemeyer

source: Oscar Niemeyer (2000). “The curves of time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer”, Phaidon Press

topic: Liberated

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

- Wole Soyinka

topic: Justice, Righteous, Teach, Liberated

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up to–how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And here’s how.

- Carolyn Cassady

topic: Moving, Book, Cities, Liberated, Liberated Woman

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.

- Romain Rolland

topic: Art, Fighting, People, Liberated

The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

- Jean Baudrillard

topic: Funny, Fashion, Sex, Polling, Liberated

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Jobs, Sex, Feminism, Liberated, Liberated Woman

We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.

- Scarlett Johansson

topic: Sex, Children, America, Liberated, President George W Bush

A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Blessing, Mind, Liberated, Defilement

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Animal, Men, Liberated, Eating Animals

Romans says the creation was 'subjected to frustration, in hope that it will be liberated from its bondage to decay.' In hope! There is hope for the earth. As Christians, we can and should have hope for the earth, as well as our hope of heaven.

- Howard A Snyder

topic: Christian, Frustration, Heaven, Liberated

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

- Steven Kotler

topic: Self, Insecurity, Doubt, Liberated

Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.

- Nathaniel Dean

topic: People, Mind, Realization, Liberated, Significant Events

As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

- Naomi Wolf

topic: Self Esteem, Workplace, Economic, Liberated, Liberated Woman

Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.

- Gangaji

topic: Self, Games, Play, Liberated

We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment.

- Daniel H. Pink

topic: Spiritual, Struggle, People, Breathtaking, Liberated

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

- Fay Wray

topic: Thinking, Feel Good, Done, Liberated

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

- Patanjali

topic: Inspirational, Life, Opposites, Liberated

The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated. . . . It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)

- Swami Satchidananda

topic: Thinking, Mind, Moksha, Liberated

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

- Bettie Page

source: FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013

topic: Believe, Thinking, Trying, Liberated

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

- Romain Gary

source: "Tulipe". Book by Romain Gary, 1946.

topic: War, Loser, Winner, Liberated

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in my life is to be liberated into feeling bad. Not sad. I have plenty of sad. What I need is a place where I can spray anger in sparks like a gnarled piece of electrical cable. Just be mad at stuff and soak in the helplessness.

- John Darnielle

topic: Rocks, Rock And Roll, People, Liberated, Electrical

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Lonely, Taken, Men, Liberated, Long Walk To Freedom

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

- Hermann Broch

topic: Soul, Impression, Deceased, Liberated, Humanness