Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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