Definition of Liberation

Liberation

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

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Act, Being, Liberated, Liberating, Of, Or, State, The

Liberation Quotations

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Bodhidharma

Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette Davis

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
Richard Pryor

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.
W. Somerset Maugham

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
John Ciardi

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
Loretta Lynn

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
Jane Fonda

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.
Sandra Cisneros

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
Sandra Cisneros

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
Andrew Cohen

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
Andrew Cohen

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.
Clara Zetkin

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

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Nora Ephron

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
R. D. Laing

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

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
Jane Rule

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
Jeanne Moreau

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.
Jasmine Guy

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Allan Bloom

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
Stanislav Grof

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
Stanislav Grof

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
Ahmed Ben Bella

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Liberation Translations

liberation in French is affranchissement
liberation in German is Befreiung
liberation in Italian is liberazione
liberation in Latin is liberatio
liberation in Swedish is befrielse

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