Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

there is no glory in punishing

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.