"The court is the bureaucracy of the law.……" — Michel Foucault
"The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court."
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Michel Foucault
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
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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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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in…
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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…
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
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Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
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The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right…
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy…
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Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.
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The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
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Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be…
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths,…
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick…
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