Henry Giroux

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

— Henry Giroux

Everyone is now a potential terrorist.

— Henry Giroux

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

— Henry Giroux

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

— Henry Giroux

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

— Henry Giroux

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

— Henry Giroux

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

— Henry Giroux

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

— Henry Giroux

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

— Henry Giroux

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking…

— Henry Giroux

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

— Henry Giroux

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

— Henry Giroux

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...

— Henry Giroux

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different…

— Henry Giroux

The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create…

— Henry Giroux

State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite…

— Henry Giroux

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified…

— Henry Giroux

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that…

— Henry Giroux

You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all…

— Henry Giroux

The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have…

— Henry Giroux

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether…

— Henry Giroux

We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on…

— Henry Giroux

It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the…

— Henry Giroux

Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power…

— Henry Giroux

Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,…

— Henry Giroux

The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of…

— Henry Giroux

There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those…

— Henry Giroux

The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects.…

— Henry Giroux

Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So…

— Henry Giroux

The media is not about responding to the wishes of people. All you have to do in the United States is turn…

— Henry Giroux

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

— Henry Giroux

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

— Henry Giroux

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful.

— Henry Giroux

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

— Henry Giroux

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

— Henry Giroux

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

— Henry Giroux

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

— Henry Giroux