

“People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”
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“Visibility is a trap.”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― Shadowlands: A Play
― Shadowlands: A Play

“power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.”
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power over himself. And it is the power over oneself that thus regulates one's power over others.”
― The Essential Foucault: Selections from the Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984
― The Essential Foucault: Selections from the Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984
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