The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

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.

The optimist's hope and the pessimist's despair: reciprocal illusions.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do.

Sometimes you get into a situation and realize that there is so much more to explore there and ask, why are we jumping off the cliff quite yet?

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.