"Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion……" — Henry Giroux
"Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged."
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31 Quotes by Henry Giroux
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Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just…
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The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current...
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The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to…
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Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some…
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Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning…
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The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about…
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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious…
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The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the…
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Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
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A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to…
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Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies…
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The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims,…
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing…
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Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
— Louise Hay
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It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons…
— Medea Benjamin
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired,…
— Scott Lively
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one…
— Willis Harman
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has…
— Vaclav Havel
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
— Jane Fonda
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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a…
— Emily Blunt
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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps…
— Brian Evenson
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