The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

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

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.

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.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

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.

Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.

Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.

There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up

It's harder than it looks to infiltrate this world.