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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.

Michel Foucault

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Crime Horror Punishment
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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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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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Myself Person Writing
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy

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