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

Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

No reality transforms itself.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

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

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.