it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
Michel FoucaultAt every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.
Michel FoucaultMethodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in the way our culture conceives of homosexuality, represents an advance not only in scholarship but in cultural criticism as well.
Michel Foucault