Critical Consciousness Quotes

#1. Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Wendy Kopp

#2. P17 - Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic.

Paulo Freire

#3. Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the ways of knowing and being that characterize one's own immediate family and community.

Margo V. Perkins

#4. I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

Fady Joudah

#5. Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

Bell Hooks

#6. Josh Bennett laughs, and for one minute, everything is right in the world.

Katja Millay

#7. The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

Hillary Clinton

#8. The symbol-producing function of our dreams is an attempt to bring our original mind back to consciousness, where it has never been before, and where it has never undergone critical self-reflection. We have been that mind, but we have never known it.

C. G. Jung

#9. As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical, less apt to blame and less tormented by others and their faults and views.

Bryant McGill

#10. Devotion is diligence without assurance

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

Susan Wiggs

#12. Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

Fanny Fern

#13. When women internalized the idea that describing their own woe was synonymous with developing a critical political consciousness, the progress of the feminist movement was stalled.

Bell Hooks

#14. P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

Paulo Freire

#15. It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

Albert Einstein

#16. Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.

Paulo Freire

#17. I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

Morgan Freeman

#18. Be a dreamer.
Be a doer.
Be a perseverer.
Be a winner.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

Lauren Groff

#20. The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

Antonio Gramsci