Liberation Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (L) Quotes

"In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom...when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce."

- Tim Robbins

(on his role in Paris, Texas (1984)) The whole film evolved on a very organic level. It almost had a documentary feel to it. It wasn`t odd to be in the lead, I took the same approach as I would to any other part. I play myself as totally as I possibly can. My own Harry Dean Stanton act . . . I don`t know whatever happened to Travis. I`d say . . . it`s me. Still searching for liberation, or enlightenment, for lack of a better way to put it, and realizing that it might happen, it might not.

- Harry Dean Stanton

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

- Jane Fonda

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.

- Kylie Minogue

(on his first trip to America and landing Remington Steele) The trip to America, it was such a great joy to go there with Cassie, to take that leap of faith and go to the New World--all that nonsense you read about in books. But again it was a liberation. In Los Angeles, I rented a car from Rent-A-Wreck, a lime green Pacer, with a cushion, because the springs were coming through, and I got a map and went on my first interview in Hollywood. Somehow I found my way out to Laurel Canyon. I got up to the top of Mulholland Drive and the car broke down, blew up. I did eventually get to the interview and saw a casting director from Mary Tyler Moore Productions. Boom! They were looking for Remington Steele. The last thing I was looking for was a TV series. I went to America thinking I was going to work with Scorsese. Taxi Driver I`d seen about 10 times and Mean Streets; that`s where my brain was at. I was going to do movies. But I needed work. I went through several more interviews and then Cassie and I came home to Wimbledon. Then the call came: Would I return for a screen test? And it was, `My God, what have we done? What have we done? What are we going to do?` Panic, panic, panic. Don`t panic! We`ll go to America. We`ll take the kids to America. So Cass, the two kids and I hopped on a plane and went to America.

- Pierce Brosnan

When I found acting, or when acting found me, it was a liberation. It was a stepping stone into another life, away from a life that I had, and acting was something I was good at, something which was appreciated. That was a great satisfaction in my life.

- Pierce Brosnan

When I saw those posters of Pierce standing there, I suddenly thought to myself, Jesus, I don`t have to stand there with a gun to the side of my head anymore! I suddenly found the most tremendous sense of liberation, and I started to feel more like myself than I`d felt in years! I suddenly felt free! (describing his feelings on whether or not in retrospect he made the right decision not to make the James Bond film GoldenEye)

- Timothy Dalton

Experience is the main reason why we`re here I think in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge, oh I think so anyway, knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation, you know we free ourselves. (On Life and Experience)

- George Harrison

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

Gay Liberation? I ain`t against it, it`s just that there`s nothing in it for me.

- Bette Davis

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

- Andrew Cohen

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

- Loretta Lynn

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

- Louis Farrakhan

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

- Louis Farrakhan

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

- Louis Farrakhan

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

- Louis Farrakhan

And today the Negro people watch Africa and Asia and closely follow the liberation struggles of the rising peoples in these lands.

- Paul Robeson

They talk of the artist finding liberation in work, it is true. One can be someone else in another, more dramatic, more beautiful world.

- Ronald Colman

(pitching the proposal for Mononoke-hime (1997)) There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans. However, even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. What we should depict is, how the boy understands the girl, and the process in which the girl opens her heart to the boy. At the end, the girl will say to the boy, "I love you, Ashitaka. But I cannot forgive humans." Smiling, the boy should say, "That is fine. Live with me."

- Hayao Miyazaki

And I guess what I would say is that we can`t think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can`t necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

- Angela Davis

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

- Arianna Huffington

No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.

- Robert Wilson

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

- Carl Levin

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

- Jean Genet

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

- Jane Rule

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

- Ahmed Kamal

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

- Aidan O'Rourke

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

- Ajay Gupta

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

- Al Carter

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women`s liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

- Al Hubbard

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

- Alaida Lares

I work toward the liberation of women, but I`m not feminist. I`m just a woman.

- Alan Aiken

On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

- Alice Paul

The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

- Alice Paul

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

- Allen Holmes

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

- Allen Johnson

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

- Allison Baker

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

- Allison Baker

My education took place in Algeria and briefly in Paris, France, but I didn`t finish, I didn`t graduate, because of the war of liberation.

- Allison Barber

The Americans may think they have "liberated" Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

- Andale Gross

It is not women`s liberation, it is women`s and men`s liberation.

- Andre Woodson

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

- Andrea Giancoli

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.

- Andrea Giancoli

I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

- Andrea Salinas

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.

- Andreas Capellanus

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.

- Andreas Capellanus

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

- Andrew Luciuk

Suicide terrorist groups are (not) religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.

- Babe Parilli

It`s really a story of liberation from standard high school sexual repression, ... gives you a chance to try (to pursue romantically) people you wouldn`t ordinarily try, because it`s that easy.

- Barbara Bishop