Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

Love is an act of courage.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role impressed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them.

The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.