Camps Quote by Giorgio Agamben Download Open image “The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.” — Giorgio Agamben ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camps Exception Space States
To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“The friend is not another I, but an otherness immanent in selfness, a becoming other of the self. At the point at which I perceive my existence as pleasant, my perception is traversed by a concurrent perception that dislocates it and deports it towards the friend, towards the other self. Friendship is this desubjectivization at the very heart of the… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“Further expanding the already large class of Foucauldian apparatuses, I shall cal an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“ ...there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder the dreary… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute and the… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp… — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and… — Anonymous Copy Share
It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to… — Rick Rowley Copy Share
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story? — Paul Copan Copy Share
[10 Things I Hate About You] was the most fun I ever had making a movie. Everyone got along really, really well from day… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image