Paulo Freire Quotes

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.

Paulo Freire

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• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Morning
  • Body
  • Butter

• There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Perfect

• I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Advertising

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• No adultery is bloodless.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Adultery
  • Bloodless

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• I don't want to die an old lady.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Want
  • Die
  • Old

• It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Interesting
  • Villain

• One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • World
  • Education
  • Africa

• The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Art
  • Knowledge

• I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Home
  • Best

• Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • People
  • Day
  • Wall

• We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Opportunities
  • Colleagues

• Meditation … puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Question
  • Search
  • Meditation

• Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • Action

• The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Fear
  • Prejudice
  • Advertising

• Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow

  

  Ricardo Montalban
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Standing

• I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Crime

• Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Struggle