Criticise Quote by Michel Foucault

The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and…

— Michel Foucault

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power

— Anonymous

Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged…

— John F. Kennedy

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation…

— Learned Hand

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of…

— John Jay Chapman

The Liberals' penchant for weaponizing institutions to silence their political opponents is undermining the very pillars that should be holding society together.

— Leslyn Lewis

“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be…

— Howard Zinn

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately…

— Thomas Merton

“The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values…

— Iain M. Banks