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“It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.”

Process Roles Subjects Awareness Essentials Transformation Critical Revolutionary Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.”

Writing Humans Has Beens Bigs Film Fun Social Sides Challenges Deals Roles Subjects Type Comedian Odd Taboo Human Psyche Escapists Faux Darker Side Faux Pas

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?”

“Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.”

Important Roles Subjects Conception Good Life Good Work Philanthropy Liberal Education

Author:Robert L. Payton

“What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play their assigned roles (the poor as passive victims, celebrities as glamorous) are hardly adequate responses. In fact, these might be reasons to ask for the help of amateurs who do not know how to stylize their imagery and are not interested in making a publication seem more palatable to its potential consumers.”

“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master”

Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch

“I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.”

Ifs Men Humans Kind Force Wish Goal Realizing My Own Decision Animal Roles Subjects Policy Objects Depends Decided Instruments Slave Incapable Doers Conceiving External Forces

Author:Isaiah Berlin

“The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.”

Ifs Felt Roles Subjects Comfortable

Author:Annie Leibovitz