"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

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Source : Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group

Paulo Freire

#Peace Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Powerful Quotes

“I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd.”

Source : "Jermain Defoe: 'I wanted to put something back and stop all this youth violence'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.
“In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.”
“Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.”

Source : Chuck Hogan (1993). “Learning Golf: The How-To-Learn Book for Aspiring Golfers”, Sports Enhancement Assocs
“Common Lisp is politics, not art.”
“A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.”
“The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.”
“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”

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