Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

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.

If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.

When you serve the humanity with compassion and kindness, You express your spontaneous love and inner greatness.

We are saved by grace.

Judges don't age time decorates them.

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

I have never considered myself an economist.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.

You get to do what you want to do – if that’s what you want to do.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.