Henry Giroux Quotes, Thoughts and images

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

War is one of the nation's most honoured virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funnelled directly from schools into prison.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in the commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panopticon.

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfilment.

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

There appears to be no space outside the panopticon of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.