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“A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas… on the soft fibers of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires.”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“Fools multiply when wise men are silent.”
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“Punishment, then, will tend to become the most hidden part of the penal process. This has several consequences: it leaves the domain of more or less everyday perception and enters that of abstract consciousness; its effectiveness is seen as resulting from its inevitability, not from its visible intensity; it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime; the exemplary mechanics of punishment changes its mechanisms. As a result, justice no longer takes public responsibility for the violence that is bound up with its practice.”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself.” If I wasn’t gonna fight for me, who else was?”
― All Boys Aren’t Blue
― All Boys Aren’t Blue
“Your memory feels like home to me.
So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
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So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
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