Bourgeoisie Quote by Michel Foucault

A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system…

— Michelle Alexander

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man…

— Bertrand Russell

“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it should operate.…

— Jeremy Bentham

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of…

— Anjem Choudary

Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill…

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a separation - a very clear separation - between the judiciary, the legal system, and the political system in this country, and…

— Anthony Albanese

The world is a penal institution.

— Taylor Caldwell

In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law…

— Frederick Lenz

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few…

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is…

— Michel Foucault