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Quote by Michel Foucault
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun e

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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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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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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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm

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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. – John Burroughs

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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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So if we have anything original to offer, its to speak from our own life about the society were in. – Sean Penn

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