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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
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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.
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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Myself Person Writing
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
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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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Justice Law Philosophy
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
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
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy

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