...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

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.

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

The egotism of woman is always for two.

i suppose doing things you hate is the price you pay to avoid loneliness.

In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.