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Transform 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…
- To speak a true word is to transform the world.
- Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
- In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a…
- There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform 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…
- Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word…
- [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…
- 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.…
- An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of…
- True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life,"…
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- God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! — William Shakespeare
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- In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded… — Friedrich Nietzsche