“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”
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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing”
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“The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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