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Michel Foucault

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
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
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
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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
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
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason

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