Quotes
Authors
Paulo Freire

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

Source : Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Paulo Freire

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“The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.”

Source : "Same-sex marriage: Scotland urged to resist Catholic church campaign" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2012.
“The thing with me is I'd rather have my cult following than just have a huge song. I haven't had one album or one official single release, but I probably got 500 songs out in people's collection.”
“I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.”
“I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you canâ€™t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You canâ€™t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.”
“Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.”
“Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.”
“I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's what makes us feel isolated, feel like outsiders sometimes. These questions are overwhelming. "What do you do in this world?" I believe in that more than anything.”
“Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.”

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