Henry Giroux Quotes

Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will tell you, when you have to sacrifice for something, you value it more. What about national service for young people? Everybody between 18 and 24 could spend a year or two working for this country in some capacity. It'd be an amazing thing. And it would mix this country racially, culturally, economically.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.

When you're dealing with younger people, if you start acting like the leader or the expert or the elder statesman, 'well, let me tell you how this is...,' that's a great way to alienate young people and make them hate you.

I beg young people to travel.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

I don’t have a definition of God, because I’ve never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it’s caused a great deal of conflict. If I had to say what would my definition of God be, if I were going to use that word, I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

You young people with your twittering and your creating of content. Or what is it - queefing? I don't know what you young people are calling it.

Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines it, if not ruins it. That served a purpose. It suggested that we need a new language and we need a new way of understanding exactly how politics leaves people out, particularly young people.

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future.

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

I think more and more young people are catching on when it comes to certain healthy behaviors, much more than I did when I was younger.

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.

We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.