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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

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Michel Foucault

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

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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.

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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.

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