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“Thus the Christian School must not simply train docile children; it must also make it possible to supervise the parents, to gain information as to their way of life, their resources, their piety, their morals.”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“And then - no, that's all I have.”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true that the population has increased.”
― Waiting for Godot
― Waiting for Godot
“Ah! Are not all authors the same? So quick to dress up their confessions. I barely qualify as human. Will I ever be a functional member of society? Even as I write these words, I worry how the sentences will sound.”
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
― The Flowers of Buffoonery
“Place the bodies in a little world of signals to each of which is attached a single, obligatory response: it is a technique of training, of dressage, that ‘despotically excludes in everything the least representation, and the smallest murmur’; the disciplined soldier ‘begins to obey whatever he is ordered to do; his obedience is prompt and blind; an appearance of docility, the least delay would be a crime”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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