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People Quotes by Paulo Freire
- Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To…
- I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even…
- Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively…
- The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
- Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to…
- In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves;…
- Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.
- Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
- The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
- The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.
- The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as…
- Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world;…
- If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve…
- It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.
- [T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform…
- Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are…
- To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a…
- Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even…
- some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic.…
- One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the…
- To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle