I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

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 ?

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.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

The best quote has never been said nor written.I do not need a quote.P. HermansNetherlands, August 11, 2016

People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tightI'm out of range, I use to carebut things have changed.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Maybe love isn’t supposed to be comfortable. Maybe love is just supposed to be worth it.

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.