Quote by Michel Foucault
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power,

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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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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The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. – Michel Foucault

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power
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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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The wonderful thing about age is that your knees dont work as well, you cant run down steps quite as easily and obviously you cant lift heavy weights. But your mind doesnt feel any different. – Roger Moore

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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell

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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. – Patrick J. Kennedy

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With age, you get to a place where you dont want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. – Vin Diesel

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