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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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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Age
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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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Madness
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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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Psychiatry
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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff. – Ethan Hawke

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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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Society

Since my retirement, Ive spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just cant afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. – Charles Kuralt

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Society

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. – Larry Niven

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Society

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What is research but a blind date with knowledge? – Will Harvey

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Promise little and do much. – Hebrew Proverb

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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life. – Gabriela Sabatini

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