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Henry Giroux Quotes

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: September 18, 1943

Topics

Hope Responsibility Political Moral

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Liar Saying Language Christian Look

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Live War Virtue Always State Combat

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

Serious Possible Try Write Joke

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

Time Personality Problem Authority

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

Time Past Year Will More Modern

I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people.

Funny Daily Hate People Me Look

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

Someone Mean Stage Head Side Used

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Brian K. Vaughan

Luxury You Page Need Film Five

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Day Go Telephone Remembering Through

If Mourinho loses 4-1, he doesn't sleep well.

Sleep Well He Loses

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

Thomas Langmann

Better Gambling Suicide Unique Film

I write in American slang.

American Write Slang I Write

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