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The individual is the product of power.

Michel Foucault

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
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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People Religion Spirit World
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
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.
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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.
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Deep People Philosophy
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy

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