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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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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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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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? – Honore de Balzac

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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. – Jack Kemp

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Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a products cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. – Eliot Spitzer

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Im 23 years old. I might just be my mothers child, but in all reality, Im everybodys child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society. – Tupac Shakur

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Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin. – Coleman Barks

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