Michel Foucault Quotes
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Quotes to Explore
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.
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The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
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Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.
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George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.
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Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
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The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
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I know there will be no more tears in heaven.
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Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.
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I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.
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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.
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To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
