Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIslam, 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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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