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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

Michel Foucault

The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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
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
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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
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
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
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
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
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

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