Henry Giroux Quotes

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

You cannot just change regimes; you have to change mindsets.

We should join hands and meet the crisis together. The impact of the crisis could be felt in Asia and the rest of the world.

In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.

There's no cultural revolution by mistake.

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.

In the United States at present the 'culture wars' of the last thirty years have now produced a horrid stand-off which compels you all into a binary either/or with all kinds of spin-offs. This is deeply unhealthy. The trouble is that the way the system is set up in order to get in and try to change it you have to be (a) a millionaire, (b) someone who can work inside the system long-term, (c) someone prepared to make deals and compromises... Which does rule out the vast majority of committed Christians.

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can't imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government. And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They've seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.