Social Quotes by 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

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

— 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

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

— Henry Giroux

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits…

— Henry Giroux

Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to…

— Henry Giroux

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,…

— Henry Giroux

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of…

— Henry Giroux

I think in light of the other two registers that you mention, there's also that moment. I mean, to what degree do…

— Henry Giroux

The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions…

— Henry Giroux

Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social…

— Henry Giroux

The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is…

— Henry Giroux

In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted…

— Henry Giroux

Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of…

— Henry Giroux

Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional…

— Henry Giroux

I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these…

— Henry Giroux

The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack…

— Henry Giroux

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold…

— Henry Giroux

I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social…

— Henry Giroux

Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American…

— Henry Giroux

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning…

— 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

If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators…

— Henry Giroux

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses…

— Henry Giroux

Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or…

— Henry Giroux

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities…

— Henry Giroux

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it.…

— Henry Giroux

The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social…

— Henry Giroux

In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a…

— Henry Giroux

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can…

— 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

The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace…

— Henry Giroux

How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution…

— Henry Giroux

Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has…

— 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

Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing.…

— Henry Giroux

It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on…

— Henry Giroux

Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young…

— Henry Giroux

Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into…

— Henry Giroux