Quotes on Liberation

A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Liberation does not come from outside.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

The thirst for liberation and equality can never come at the expense of dehumanizing other marginalized groups - especially at a time when hate crimes against Jews have increased significantly.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.

My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.