Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience.
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'
Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.
The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.
My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
