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"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."

Foucault, Michel on punishment    Share


"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on adventure
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"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

Gogh, Vincent Van on adventure
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Jung, Carl on adventure
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"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on adventure
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"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William on adventure
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"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire on adventure
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"If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts."

Marcuse, Herbert on culture    Share

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

Thompson, Hunter S. on journalism and journalists
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"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

Foucault, Michel on science
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"The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order."

Foucault, Michel on crime and criminals    Share

"If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides."

Montesquieu, Charles De on god
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"It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires."

Montesquieu, Charles De on greatness    Share

"This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it."

Montesquieu, Charles De on talent    Share

"The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment."

Marcuse, Herbert on materialism    Share

"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."

Marx, Karl on sales    Share

"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."

Marx, Karl on capitalism    Share

"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."

Wilder, Thornton on adventure
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