The multitude is always in the wrong.

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experience of teaching as an art; being pushed forward by the challenges that prevent me from bureaucratizing my practice; accepting my limitations, yet always conscious of the necessary effort to overcome them and aware that I cannot hide them because to do so would be a failure to respect both my students and myself as a teacher.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.