Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

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.

Jason decided there was nothing in the world scarier than a gang of bat-wielding grannies.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?