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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Justice 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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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