Jack Kerouac Quotes

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

Freedom from the wants of the body can help fulfill the needs of the spirit.

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line.

I'm passionate about two things: Jesus and liberation.

I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.

I think that I'm allowing girls to be really free with their sexuality.

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.