Henry Giroux Quotes

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

We all have to make sacrifices for the New Frontier.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

When somebody comes up with a progressive idea, to begin with, you're mad, bonkers. Then if you go on, you're dangerous. Then there's a pause. Then you can't find anyone who can say they thought of it in the first place. That's how progress is made. This is why I do believe in the vote. In the end, all these people who've been tempted to the right realise the warning lights in their constituency are brighter than the bright lights from No. 10 offering them things.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

The greatest thing to me about Obama is not the individual, it does not have to do with Obama himself - it's really about the people who have elected Obama. It demonstrates that people are ready for change, and I think Obama knows that, because he really came up from the people, the young generation especially. He motivated a lot of African Americans who never voted before to go and vote.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.