Humans Quotes by Paulo Freire

“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.”

— Paulo Freire

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

— Paulo Freire

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

— Paulo Freire

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

— Paulo Freire

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the…

— Paulo Freire

[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of…

— Paulo Freire

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans…

— Paulo Freire

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by…

— Paulo Freire

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

— Paulo Freire

Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in…

— Paulo Freire

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform…

— Paulo Freire

some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively…

— Paulo Freire

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside…

— Paulo Freire

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the…

— Paulo Freire

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if…

— Paulo Freire

Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence.…

— Paulo Freire