Crime Quotes by Henry Giroux

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

— Henry Giroux

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

— Henry Giroux

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new…

— Henry Giroux

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact…

— Henry Giroux

There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the…

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

— Henry Giroux

Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the…

— Henry Giroux

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,…

— Henry Giroux

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways…

— Henry Giroux

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which…

— Henry Giroux

As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives…

— Henry Giroux

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree…

— Henry Giroux

Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism…

— Henry Giroux

Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or…

— 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

Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless…

— Henry Giroux

The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed…

— Henry Giroux

The rise of the punishing state and the governing-through-crime youth complex throughout American society suggests the need for a politics that not…

— Henry Giroux

In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has…

— Henry Giroux

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how…

— Henry Giroux

There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly…

— Henry Giroux

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose…

— Henry Giroux

Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in…

— Henry Giroux

A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing…

— Henry Giroux

Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as…

— Henry Giroux

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in…

— Henry Giroux

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial…

— Henry Giroux

The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors,…

— Henry Giroux