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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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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The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. – Michel Foucault

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No one provokes me with impunity. – Mary Queen Of Scots

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

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

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Well, theres no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. – Lady Gregory

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