Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULTJustice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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