Quote by Michel Foucault
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist onl

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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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. – Michel Foucault

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Art
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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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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise. – Michel Foucault

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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. – Eric Bently

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Society

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs. – John Charles Polanyi

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Society

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. – Judi Dench

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Society

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The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and thats a cool thing. I dont think its exploded or anything, but I think its pretty cool that it still exists, its still affecting people. – Bob Odenkirk

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Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions. – Lois Capps

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. – Voltaire

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Surely these women wont lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. – Rose Schneiderman

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