36 quotes found
“All Individuals in this world struggle and fight their own battles.Very Few choose to fight the battles worth fighting for.The ones that serve as an instrument of liberation,an instrument of hope a...”
“The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive activities in which the an...”
“In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders cling on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people...”
“Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.”
“Liberation is not deliverance.”
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become...”
“Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.”
“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
“To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders. ”
“..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism...”
“If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?”
“One's ‘life’ is ‘fractured’; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate li...”
“What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!”
“If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), ‘You’ (the Self) do not have to ‘do’ anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, ‘You’ have to ‘do’ everything.”
“...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...”