We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIslam, 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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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Visibility is a trap.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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