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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.

Michel Foucault

The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Freedom Liberty
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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
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
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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Power Resistance
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep People Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Adventure Deep Dream Place
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself

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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