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"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."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"The real difference between men is energy."
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"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."
"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."
"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."
"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."
"As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."
"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
"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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