Quote by Michel Foucault
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and desp

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. – Michel Foucault

Other quotes by Michel Foucault

Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. – Michel Foucault

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power
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. – Michel Foucault

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Society
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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 Foucault

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Society
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. – Ibrahim Babangida

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Freedom

You cannot mistake Bushs clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they arent just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves. – Eric Liu

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Freedom

Freedom cannot be given… It can only be taken away. – David Allan Coe

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Freedom

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law. – Demosthenes

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Freedom

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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

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As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. – Bhagavad Gita

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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