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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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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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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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Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler

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

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

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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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