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The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

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there is no glory in punishing

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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Classify, Define, People, Prison, Regulate, School

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression

Discourse, Facts, Negative, Running, Says, Social

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

Induces, Knowledge And Power, Production, Regulation, Truth, Truth Is

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Feels, Interest, Interest In Life, Know, Life, Work
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