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Quote by Michel Foucault
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. – Michel Foucault

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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. – Michel Foucault

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Madness
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Michel Foucault
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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding

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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. – John Bunyan

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. – Horace

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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. – Italian Proverb

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The beginning is the most important part of the work. – Plato

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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

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Its a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. – John Hersey

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