"Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."
― Michel Foucault
Topic(s):
Society
More From Michel Foucault
- "The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
- "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."
- "Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
More In Society
- "As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."― Albert Camus
- "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."― Robert Frost
- "The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."― Peter Kropotkin