Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.
The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.