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Quote by Michel Foucault
Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a c

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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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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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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Society
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. – Michel Foucault

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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke

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Prayer is mans greatest power! – W. Clement Stone

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I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world. – Evel Knievel

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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! – Samuel Richardson

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