Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTSchools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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The individual is the product of power.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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