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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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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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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Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. – Woody Allen

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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. – Edward F. Halifax

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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. – Miguel de Cervantes

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

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