“Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.” WorldBelieveKindImportantRealChoicesCoursesBitsSignificantLiberationRecognizingMotheringSignificant Things Author:Marianne Williamson
“I have a vision of a world where we don't continue down senseless paths, where we care for our fellow human as much as we care for ourselves. I believe the mere striving for such a world is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner and global security.” WorldBelieveHumansCareI BelieveVisionPathSecurityFellowsFoundationMereStriveLiberation Author:Sam Branson
“One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.” ShouldHumanityAmountLiberationContemptRefrainShaving Author:Coco Chanel
“I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.” LiberationParisEulogyWholeheartedlyValour Author:Coco Chanel
“As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"” IfsPurposeAsksUnderstandingYogaSeekingKarmaLiberation Author:Sharon Gannon
“I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.” ThinkingSufferingWealthViewsIgnoranceMaterialsChinaBuddhistLiberationModernityLamaDalaiMaterial Wealth Author:Pico Iyer
“We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.” PeopleIfsDifferentSelfReasonRealityLightTurnsBitsWhiteConsciousnessStepsColorEnlightenmentLiberationConfusedDimensionsCrystalsSpectrumAwakenedSense Of SelfBeamLuminousFacetsWhite LightDifferent Dimensions Author:Jack Kornfield
“I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.” WayShouldLooksWarHardEyeHistoryCrossesStrategyFranceLiberationOperationsGermany Author:George C. Marshall
“Turkey has its own interests and historically, Turkey conquered most of the Arab world, and the Arabs had to fight wars of liberation to free themselves from the Turks. That's in the past and that doesn't necessarily shape what is going on but it's there and it's there in people's memories.” PeopleWorldWarPastFightingInterestMemoriesShapesLiberationTurkeysArab World Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.” ProudLiberation Author:Sekou Odinga
“The letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more of a free-flowing liberation space.” DifferentRealityMovingProcessSpaceLetting GoIllusionFlowLiberationEnergetic Author:Christine McCormick Day
“Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.” ThinkingMindUseDependsLiberationImprisonment Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.” WellsWarKnownGenerationsLiberationWell KnownPaul Sartre Author:Catherine Camus
“We all are doing the best we can. I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.” FallStrongFeminismWalkingStatementsLiberationBoardsStrong WomenFlawedPostersBeing A Strong Woman Author:Denzel Washington
“As Iraqi forces continue the liberation of Mosul, I'm pleased that NATO will be meeting the commitment we made in Warsaw to begin training additional forces in Iraq.” MadeForceTrainingCommitmentMeetingsIraqLiberationNatoWarsaw Author:Barack Obama
“I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.” IfsKnowsWritingTwoBookFormThreeFeltTermCreativityWrittenHappenedBuddhismConflictEnlightenmentLiberationRejectionLengthChaptersRejectedEntitledExploringPsychicsEasternEssaysFascinationAntibodies Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.” IfsPhilosophyWould BeCertainReadingBuddhismResearchImpressionLiberationSuicidalFascinationClausesJungQualifying Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.” ArtCharacterCreativityBuddhismFundamentalsLiberationTitlesOppositionNot InterestedEssaysFascinationArt And Creativity Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.” IfsGivingVictimForgivingLiberationLive Your LifePerpetrators Author:Desmond Tutu
“Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."” PeopleGivingBlackLinesCollegeGive MeBritishLiberation Author:Dick Gregory
“I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.” LooksArtBodyKidsAgeAmericaPresidentGroupsMovementStudentsFolksClubsSupposed To BeLiberationGenreMinoritiesRacistEngineersDocumentationHomemakerYearbookFolk Art Author:Kevin Starr
“There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.” LiberationGoing For It Author:Meryl Streep
“It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.” KnowsWayTryingKindMeanStillsImportantRealMatterPlayFeltCausesDealsRecordsRocksExpressionSceneInspiredRadioPrimariesLiberationPunkGigsStadiumsPunk RockRadio Plays Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Today [ Sun Tzu] ideas are not widely applied, at least among Islamic dissidents, whose profligate use of indiscriminate terrorism appears to limit the appeal of their ideas rather than to "win hearts and minds," as the Vietminh and the National Liberation Front did in Vietnam so many decades ago.” MindHeartIdeasUseTodayWinningSunFrontsLimitsTerrorismDecadesAppealsLiberationIslamicVietnamHeart And MindDissidents Author:William J. Duiker
“The fact that women have been moving forward, that a woman was running for president, that we had a black president - I think there was, without a doubt, a whitelash and a complete backlash against the liberation of women, against the power of people of color.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensFactsRunningMovingBlackPresidentDoubtColorMoving ForwardLiberationBacklash Author:Eve Ensler
“There are three billion women in the world who have vaginas. I don't think we can stop fighting for our sexual liberation, for our right to control our bodies. But at the same time as we're doing that, we have to also be fighting for the rights of trans women and standing up for them and making sure that we're always providing platforms for them and listening to their concerns in solidarity.” ThinkingWorldBodyFightingThreeRightsListeningConcernStandingBillionsLiberationPlatformsProvidingSolidarityTrans Author:Eve Ensler
“When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command, and other kinds of things they wanted in their relationships with their husbands, or partners or what have you, became for subsequent generations some license that they themselves feel, that is absolutely demeaning and mean younger and younger and younger.” ThinkingFeelsKindMeanChildrenWantedChoicesGenerationsHusbandPartnersCommandLiberationLicenseWomen WantDemeaning Author:Toni Morrison
“First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: "Thou shalt not lie," there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.” IfsMenFirstsMatterAbleActionPoliticalLyingExistenceConditionsPossibilityMoralityUniversalImprovementLiberationWhat MattersPolitical Action Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.” ThinkingFeelsHardBlackColorBecomingToolsLiberationTherapyBlack WomenPsychiatrist Author:Morgan Parker
“We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.” PeopleKnowsShareResourcesSouthLiberationSouth AfricaDeprived Author:Nelson Mandela
“I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.” IfsThinkingYearsWould BeSchoolMovementGayMarriedDatingArmyLiberationOld SchoolCampaigningJoining The ArmyGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then Germany, again, at the forefront of progress. Then America in the '80s, when women were closing the pay gap. And Japan, same thing.” FirstsCountryHardAgeAmericaNextPayProgressCenturyLateWaveCoreGoldenInstanceFranceLiberationGermanyJapanParadoxGaps20th Century80sPornographyClosingSwedenGolden Age18th CenturyHard CorePay Gap Author:Stephen Marche
“Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the world, getting old enough to be on my own. And today we have to deal with the fact that being on your own is so frightening and so scary and makes you feel so vulnerable. I wouldn't be where I am today if I had that attitude, if I had been afraid to be on my own.” IfsWorldFeelsEnoughFactsTodayMy OwnDealsAttitudeResponsibilityLibertyScaryVulnerableLiberationFrighteningGetting Old Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the axiom that the wretched of the earth, understood socially, think and thus must be a basis of a new politics. This, of course, is not achieved immediately, but it must become an explicit element of the struggle for liberation.” ThinkingEarthCoursesStruggleElementsUnderstoodBasesWestHumanismIdeologyLiberationElitesContrastWretchedAxiomsExplicit Author:Nigel Gibson
“The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to create spaces for liberation, but also all talk is quickly swallowed up by it. People are trying to keep their heads down because they are being bombarded all the time.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesProblemChanceSpaceViolenceLiberationSyriaBombarded Author:Nigel Gibson
“Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something else, but also act together. If you are thinking about an elemental solidarity, you are thinking about people acting together and taking decisions together, and thereby beginning to think about what sort of society they want to create. So, there is a need for liberated spaces; that is really difficult.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantNeedsKindTogetherCertainSocialDifficultSpaceDecisionActingLiberationSolidarityCan NotLiberatedGet TogetherElementalsActing Together Author:Nigel Gibson
“The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.” HatredLocalsLiberationSchemesPettyDisputesConsumed Author:Nigel Gibson
“The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.” PeopleYearsHumansSaidWarRealMomentsTermHuman BeingsLandSixYears AgoHatredFoundationIsraelLiberationTerritoryEstatesLiberatingLiberatedChanting Author:Amos Oz
“There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.” PeopleThinkingWorldHas BeensReasonRolesTeacherDoctorsThirdsPraiseEnormousReactionsLiberationReason WhyJailPakistanAstonishingCubaEarthquakesPoorestPlaces In The WorldThird WorldApartheidCubanHaitiNelsonCastroInternationalism Author:Noam Chomsky
“From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.” IfsTryingReasonGovernmentPoliticalCoursesStrongSupportFrontsSolutionsIndependenceSouthLiberationComparisonVietnamDedicatedJohnsonVietnamese Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.” IfsShouldWarDesireGoalStruggleStageHarmonyLiberationOver ItAvoidedRevoltGutters Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of that vision is very much about desire, about the erotic.” ThinkingPoliticalDesireVisionPossibilityLiberationEngagedErotic Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling against a West-centric world order. Latin American countries used international law creatively, both to limit the protection of foreign investment by establishing the primacy of national sovereignty in relation to natural resources, and by building support for the norm on non-intervention in internal affairs.” WorldIdeasSelfCountryLawUsedOrderStrongGivenNaturalSupportStruggleMovementBuildingLimitsResourcesDeterminationRelationWestInvestmentAffairInternationalProtectionLiberationInternalsLatinSelf DeterminationSovereigntyNormInterventionCredibilityLatin AmericaNatural ResourcesWorld OrderInternational LawLatin AmericanPrimacyInternal AffairsNational Sovereignty Author:Richard A. Falk
“The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries.” CountryProblemAmericaDifficultImpossibleSocialismPeacefulLiberationTransitionBulletsTheoretical Author:Che Guevara
“The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.” PoliticalLateToolsFinancialCorruptionTheologyPostsLiberationFallenNativeCracksPopeVocabularyModernityMarxistArgentinaColossalRhetoricalPeriphery Author:George Weigel
“I think Pope Francis is a guy who comes from a certain place in the world, and that shapes how he processes things. He's like a liberation theology guy, but I think that what he's done is focused the Catholic Church where it should be - on the poor.” ThinkingWorldShouldDoneGuyCertainProcessChurchPoorShapesCatholicFocusedTheologyLiberationPopeCatholic ChurchPlaces In The World Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's revolution, the liberation movements in all the third world countries, which when everyone tries to get started the U.S. stops.” WorldTryingMeanCountryTodayRevolutionLiberation Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti