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Quotes About Change

A coerência não é, porém, imobilizante. Posso, no processo de agir-pensar, falar, escrever, mudar de posição. Minha coerência assim, tão necessária quanto antes, se faz com novos parâmetros. O impossível para mim é a falta de coerência, mesmo reconhecendo a impossibilidade de uma coerência absoluta.
~ Paulo Freire
To speak a true word is to transform the world.
~ Paulo Freire
To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life as a process—live to become
~ Paulo Freire
The revolution is made neither by the leaders for the people, nor by the people for the leaders, but by both acting together in unshakable solidarity.
~ Paulo Freire
To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming,. Human beings are not built in silence,3 but in word, in work, in action-reflection.
~ Paulo Freire
If the humanization of the oppressed signifies subversion, so also does their freedom; hence the necessity for constant control. And the more the oppressors control the oppressed, the more they change them into apparently inanimate "things." This tendency of the oppressor consciousness to "in-animate" everything and everyone it encounters, in its eagerness to possess, unquestionably corresponds with a tendency to sadism.
~ Paulo Freire
Sé q las cosas pueden incluso empeorar, pero también sé, q es posible intervenir para mejorarlas
~ Paulo Freire
Study circles. They began also to have their study circles, studying, discussing the Gospels, and think­ ing about the political and social circumstances in which they were reinterpreting the Gospels. In doing that, they discovered the need to change the country, and they got a new consciousness-a historical, politi­cal consciousness of the reality.
~ Paulo Freire
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed
~ Paulo Freire
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
~ Paulo Freire
você nunca vai saber o que vem depois de sábado quem sabe um século muito mais lindo e mais sábio quem sabe apenas mais um domingo
~ Unknown
E quando tudo tinha mudado, me dei ao direito de também.
~ Unknown
Amor, então, também, acaba? Não, que eu saiba. O que eu sei é que se transforma numa matéria-prima que a vida se encarrega de transformar em raiva. (Ou em rima)
~ Unknown
The decision by the British in 1911 to build New Delhi, without integrating the old city with the new, sealed the fate of Shahjahanabad. From then onwards, purani Dilli would live on but only like an ageing courtesan abandoned by her new suitors, waiting to die.
~ Unknown
Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.
~ Peace Pilgrim
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Are you Stupid?" "Huh?" "Hotoba-san, Even if you are far away the sky i always connected. Friends are friend no matter where you are. Change isn't so bad...I was scared of change too. We're both scared. Lets be friend...okay?
~ Unknown
Even if a lot of things change, his hand will surely always be this warm.
~ Unknown
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
~ Pearl Bailey
We must change in order to survive.
~ Pearl Bailey
You must change in order to survive..
~ Pearl Bailey
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
~ Pearl Bailey
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
~ Pearl Buck
When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.
~ Pearl Cleage