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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Michel Foucault

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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 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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
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
Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
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

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