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Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit…

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…

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It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the… — Woodrow Wilson
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights… — A B Simpson
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen… — Roger Rosenblatt
It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my… — Lucy Stone
It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of… — Eustace Mullins
Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their… — Ilya Ilf
Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to… — Cliff Asness
I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who… — Robert Muller
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker… — Dorothy Allison

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