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In rising up, the Iranians said to themselves – and this is perhaps the soul of the uprising: ‘Of course, we have to change this regime and get rid of this man … But above all, we have to change ourselves. Our way of being, our relationship with others, with things, with eternity, with God, etc., must be completely changed, and there will only be a true revolution if this radical change in our experience takes place.

All the important concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver - but also because Their systematic structure, which is essential for the sociological investigation of these concepts.
- Carl Schmitt

I am an experimenter in the sense that I write in order to change myself.
Michel Foucault, 1978 1

… there is no first or final point of resistance to political power other than in the relationship one has to oneself.
Michel Foucault, 1982