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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…
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
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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…
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
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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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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is…
— Thomas Paine
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
— Daniel Schorr
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Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...
— Seneca the Younger
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The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised…
— Matthew Arnold
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May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an…
— James Madison
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature…
— C.S. Lewis
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual,…
— Michel Foucault
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
— William Proxmire
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