Michel Foucault

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• Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

  Discipline and Punish (1977) as translated by Alan Sheridan, p. 228

  • Education

• Unreason is to reason as dazzlement is to daylight.

  History of Madness (1961)

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• Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

  “The Subject and Power” (1982), p. 785

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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