It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

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

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.