Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“The thematics which have come from the people return to them--not as contents to be deposited, but as problems to be solved.”
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 3
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“Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.”
Paladin of Souls (2003)
Context: You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.
p. 36
Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 5, It Works, p. 117.
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 36
“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Stating that he was considering a run as an Independent for US Senate after Olympia Snowe's surprise announcement that she would be retiring from it, as quoted in "Olympia Snowe Retirement Causes Maine Scramble" in the Associated Press (29 February 2012) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/olympia-snowe-retirement-maine_n_1310524.html
Context: I'm giving it some thought for the very reason that Olympia quit. It's just not working down there and maybe we need to try something different. … We have serious problems in this country but we can't begin to solve them until we solve this shrill deadlock.
“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”
“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems”