#liberation

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

— Ahmed Chalabi

#liberation #national #people #reject #totalitarianism

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#deliberation #each #emerge #given #leaves

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

#am #any #cruelty #dominance #i

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. ↗

— Horace

#alert #arrest #before #carefully #decay

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

#charged #emotionally #ever #fulfill #hatred

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗

— Iain Pears

#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#gender #men #women #women-s-liberation #men

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. ↗

— Rebecca West

#empowerment #feminism #opinions #women #womens-liberation

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#liberation #novel #work

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#oppression #community