Liberation Quotes
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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.
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.
This is the use of memory: For liberationnot less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past.
— 1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.
jonathan franzen— 1984 The Weaker Vessel, epilogue.
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind
michael foot— Morning Star, 1980
If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.
ernesto 'che' guevara— Regarding the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in an interview for Radio Rivadavia of Argentina (3 November 1959)
Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of liberation that has throughout history risen in protest against the totalitarian and anti-human movements of various kinds, such as communism and nazism. It is therefore natural that the Progress Party with its liberal base once again stands first in the line and takes up the fight when a new fascist ideology as Islamism is spreading throughout the world.
carl i. hagen— In Dagbladet (6 October 2004)
Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.
henri nouwen— The Wounded Healer, 1972
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.'
pierre schaeffer— Pierre Schaeffer: an Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete (Records Quarterly magazine, vol. 2, n° 1; 1987)
Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.
dimitrije tucović— Prva balkanska socijaldemokratska konferencija (u Izabrani spisi, knjiga II, str. 23) Prosveta, Beograd, 1950.
I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
lois mcmaster bujold— "Putting It Together" p. 8
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.
vasily chuikov— Quoted in "The fall of Berlin" - by Vasili? Ivanovich Chu?kov - 1968
"The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors" "They have no consciousness of themselves as persons or as members of an oppressed class." "The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'" "The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor."
paulo freire— Chapter 1, on the oppressed
"How can the oppressed, as divided unauthentic beings, participate in the pedagogy of their liberation?" "As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to to be like , and to be like is to be like the oppressor , this contribution is impossible." "liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one."
paulo freire— Chapter 1, on the oppressed
"Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation." "Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation." "A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle."
paulo freire— Chapter 1 (Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970))
"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."
paulo freire— Chapter 2 (Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970))
What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 275. (Helen Zimmern translation)
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
andy partridge— "Me And The Wind"
"And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation."
richard perle— Source: Source: Notes: from luncheon keynote speech, "Turkey at the Crossroads", September 22, 2003
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
wilhelm reich— Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique
The riots in Calcutta shocked Gandhi, the nation, and the world. Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh leaders exploited the communal tensions in 1946-1947 for their own political gain. In their fervor for liberation from the Hindu majority.
— In p.46 (Gandhi's Experiments with Truth: Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi)
Just as the fire is the direct cause for cooking, so without Knowledge no emancipation can be had. Compared with all other forms of discipline Knowledge of the Self is the one direct means for liberation .
— p. 4: Quote nr. 2 (Atma Bodha (1987))
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer, 1972 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 15 (10), (October 1972): pp. 859–866
He is a being who has attained what is called ‘ liberation ' in the East, what is called salvation in the West; a being whose soul and Spirit have become unified, who lives consciously on the higher plane of our own universe – the fivefold universe – and whose centre of consciousness is on the atmic, sometimes called the nirvanic , plane.
— Annie Besant, in Annie Besant's London Lectures of 1907, (2008), p.78
The doctrine of the Jainas who let their Prophet Parsva proclaim in the 8th century BC – the difference between mind and matter and of salvation by the liberation of an individual soul from matter.
— Helmuth von Glasenapp, in Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation, (1 January 1999), p.24
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.
— Cited by António Caeiro in Pela China Dentro (translated), Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004. ISBN 972-20-2696-8
"liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it."
paulo freire— Chapter 2 (Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970))
liberation or moksha for much Vedantic thought was not something that can be “reached” or “acquired". Since the atman is already there as the fundamental essence of the self is merely there to be experienced.
— Jeaneane D. Fowler, in The Bhagavad Gita: A Text and Commentary for Students (2012), p.46
