George Harrison Quotes

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Despite the great vision, it is only drop by drop that we squeeze the slave out of ourselves.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of our oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.

I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.

.. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

No one can give you freedom but you.

Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your "liberators" are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"

The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!

When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.