One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

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.

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.

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

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