It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

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.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

I am passionate about a few things, of course acting, films/TV and improving the lives of youth in urban communities.

Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.

Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.