Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

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

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 they liberated: they oppress.

How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell, Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up in medium. I just think about whatever project it is that I'm doing.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.