Henry Giroux

I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think…

— Henry Giroux

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

— Henry Giroux

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate…

— 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

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

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

War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of…

— Henry Giroux

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,…

— Henry Giroux

The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current…

— Henry Giroux

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of…

— Henry Giroux

The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more…

— Henry Giroux

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens…

— Henry Giroux

Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian…

— 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 need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them…

— Henry Giroux

Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market…

— Henry Giroux

The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated…

— Henry Giroux

Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism is vulnerable. When it comes to talking about social provisions, the only argument they have is the argument of barbarians: that…

— Henry Giroux

Trump is the living embodiment of the main character in the film American Psycho, a symbol of corporate domination on steroids, an…

— 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

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

— Henry Giroux

The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

— Henry Giroux

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

— Henry Giroux

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

— Henry Giroux

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

— Henry Giroux

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.

— Henry Giroux

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American…

— Henry Giroux

In some cities such as Washington, DC, that 75 percent of young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

— Henry Giroux

“It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism.”

— Henry Giroux