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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Michel Foucault

From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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Absence Myself Problem
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent

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