The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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