It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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