Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

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.

Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves.

Wisdom is reliable

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.