"Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society."
-Michel Foucault
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"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.“
-Michel Foucault
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"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
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"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
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"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."
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