Liberated Quotes

• The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • History
  • Know
  • Liberated

• The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

  

  William Golding
  • Self
  • Shame
  • Behinds

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

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Education
  • Segregation
  • Liberated

• A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

  

  Betty Ford
  • She
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • People
  • First
  • Oppressive

• 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
  • Body
  • Animal
  • Liberated

• The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Prejudices

• The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

  

  Wojciech Kurtyka
  • Mountain
  • Coming
  • Liberated

• 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
  • Woman
  • Sex
  • President George W. Bush

• But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.

  

  Esther Vilar
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Conclusion

• When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is...

  

  Alice Neel
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Liberated

• For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

  

  George Eliot
  • Energy
  • Enjoy
  • Sorry

• 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
  • Mean
  • Religious
  • Humans

• Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Great
  • View
  • Acknowledging

• I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Actors
  • Stuff
  • Liberated

• When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

  

  William R. Ferris
  • Trying
  • Mean
  • Southern

• I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Concept
  • Flesh