"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

Authority, Conscience, Freedom

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"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

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"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."

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"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."

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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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"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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