

“I nearly forgot something my old father told me not long before he died. He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent

“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”
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“I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.”
― The Black Prince
― The Black Prince

“[D]iscipline tries to rile a multiplicity of men to the extent that their multiplicity can and must be dissolved into individual bodies that can be kept under surveillance, trained, used, and if need be, punished.”
― Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
― Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
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