Paulo Freire Famous Quotes



"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."


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"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"
Martin Luther King Jr

"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Unknown

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless."
Henry Kissinger

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
H L Mencken

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe
Maurice Mascaranhas