Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Freire

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.

Paulo Freire

I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and in the creation of a world in which it will be easier to love

Paulo Freire

It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

Paulo Freire

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Paulo Freire

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Paulo Freire

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Philip Sidney

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Philip Sidney

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

Philip Sidney

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

Philip Sidney

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

Philip Sidney

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

Philip Sidney

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

Philip Sidney

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Philip Roth

It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

Philip Roth

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

Philip Roth

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

Philip Roth

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Philip Guston

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

Philip James Bailey

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

Philip James Bailey

What men call accident is God's own part.

Philip James Bailey

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Philip James Bailey

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

Philip James Bailey

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

Petra Kelly

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Pharrell Williams

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

Pharrell Williams

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

Peter Diamandis

The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed.

Peter De Vries

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

Peter De Vries

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

Peter De Vries

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

Peter Drucker

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the 'the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow' and Robert Heller described him as 'the greatest man in the history of management', praise indeed for a man who described himself as 'just an old journalist'.

Peter Drucker

The fault is in the system and not in the men.