Liberative Pedagogy Quotes & Sayings

Don't change the man. Change his environment. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The worship had already begun. It was my favorite part about the whole thing. There was something electric about everyone lifting their hands up to the ceiling as if they were trying to pull things down from heaven. They reached and they reached and I couldn't help but wish I would find a reason to reach my hands up too. — Hannah Brencher

If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humility is the mother of giants. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity. — Michael Parkinson

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries. — Harper Lee

When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre. — John Heywood

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being. — Sammy Hagar

I think that's the only way you can ever be truly successful in this world. You have to acknowledge that it is from above. And you have to have the confidence that even if you lose it all, things will be okay. You have to be willing to fail, and all the while work your tail off to succeed. — Willie Robertson

As a police officer, he'd found that uncontained anger was nothing but a menace to him. Whereas contained anger greatly appealed to him, and he believed that people who weren't angry at all were basically unobservant. — John Irving

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields. — Norbert Wiener

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface. — David O. Russell

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct. — Tony Robbins

Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate. — Frederick Lenz