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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.
Deng Xiaoping— Cited by António Caeiro in Pela China Dentro (translated), Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004.
When national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarce, I believe, a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by bankruptcy; sometimes by an avowed one, but always by a real one, though frequently by a pretend payment.
Adam Smith— Chapter III, Part V, p. 1012
What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.
alexander blok— "Those Born in Years of Stagnation" (1914); translation from Jon Stallworthy and Peter France (trans.) The Twelve, and Other Poems (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970) p. 139.
The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.
clive barker— The Advocate (Feb. 21, 1995)
This is deathless, the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.
— Majjhima Nikaya (MN) 106
Do they find in the history of St. Domingo, and in the present condition of Jamaica, under the recent experiments which have been made upon the institution of slavery in the liberation of the blacks, before God, in his wisdom, designed it should be done — do they there find anything to stimulate them to future exertion in the cause of abolition ? Or should they not find there satisfactory evidence that their past course was founded in error?
jefferson davis— Speech, 1850
Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.
barry malzberg— (p. 145 in The Nebula Awards 18 edited by Robert Silverberg)
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.
— p. 185 (The Summing Up (1938))
It was from Tito that I drew inspiration while searching for the best road to take and when making crucial decisions during our liberation struggle. I often thought, what would Tito do at that moment?
robert mugabe— Mugabe cited in: Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 400.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
— Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons after successful evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk, France, June 4, 1940. Robert Rhodes James, ed., Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963 (1974), vol. 6, p. 6231.
I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
james baldwin— "In Search of a Majority" address delivered at Kalamazoo College (February 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
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).
j. g. ballard— Interview in Penthouse (September 1970)
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
jacques barzun— "The Bugbear of Relativism," p. 97
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
Andrea Dworkin— p. 248. (Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000))
How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.
Friedrich Engels— Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847)
Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
warren farrell— p. 44. (Part 1: The Myth of Male Power)
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.
herbert marcuse— p. 7 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
hayao miyazaki— Proposal for Princess Mononoke[1]
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.
friedrich nietzsche— “Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 128
If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie , we will surely grow confused , go astray, and lose sight of our objective , and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well in other words , we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit .
— Mikhail Bakunin, in God and the State (1871; publ. 1882)
Today belongs to the people of Egypt, and the American people are moved by these scenes in Cairo and across Egypt because of who we are as a people and the kind of world that we want our children to grow up in. The word Tahrir means liberation.:; It is a word that speaks to that something in our souls that cries out for freedom.:; And forevermore it will remind us of the Egyptian people of what they did, of the things that they stood for, and how they changed their country, and in doing so changed the world.
— Barack Obama, in Remarks by the President on Egypt (11 February 2011)
Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for “vulgarity”; they called it apeirokalia , lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.
— Leo Strauss, “What is liberal education?” Liberalism, Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 8
This is deathless, the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.
— Majjhima Nikaya (MN) 106
The term is used in Hindu Scriptures to denote both the experience of partial liberation on the earth and the state of total liberation in the divine life .
— p.93 (Purusharthas: dharma, artha, kama, moksha: their relevance and currency today and for tomorrow, doctoral thesis presented at the Mahatma Gandhi University)
Linga Purana is where Maheshwara, present in the Agni Linga , explained {the objects of life ) virtue , wealth , pleasure , and final liberation at the end of the Agni Kalpa, and this Purana, consists of eleven thousand stanzas. It is said to have been originally composed by Brahma and the primitive Linga is a pillar of radiance , in which Maheswara is present.
— Horace H. Wilson, in Works:¬Vol. ¬6 : ¬The Vish?u Pur?a: a system of Hindu mythology ..., Volume 6 (1864), p.LXVii-LXViii
The new religious consciousness rises up against the nihilistic attitude towards the world and mankind . If a religious rebirth be possible, only then on this soil will there be the revealing of the religious meaning of secular culture and earthly liberation, the revealing of the truth about mankind. For the new religious consciousness the declaration of the will of God is together with this a declaration of the rights of man , a revealing of the Divine within mankind.
— Nikolai Berdyaev, in "Nihilism On A Religious Soil" (6 May 1907)
"It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of liberation can be built up."
subhas chandra bose— In his address to the Indian National Army on becoming its Supreme Commander on 26 August 1943, as quoted in India Calling (1946) by himself and R. I. Paul, p. 52
liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.
gustavo gutierrez— Conclusion, p. 174
I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal liberation Front].
ingrid newkirk— The New York Daily News, 1997December 7
