Henry Giroux Quotes

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Anything's possible in politics.

In government change is suspected.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

To live in freedom one must grow used to a life full of agitation, change and danger.

I think it's exciting, working with new people. There's something refreshing about not knowing what's going to happen. It's like an open sky of possibilities.

We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn't look pretty, especially in today's politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

History is full of surprises.

You can't shoot an idea.

I think it's arguable about which one [Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump] will wind up being more harmful to us. But what I am very convinced of is that we're not going to move forward unless we stand up.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility.

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

I have no idea what's going to happen with America in the future.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.