society
“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine.”
“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
“Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”
“Tolerance, good temper and sympathy—they are what matter really.”
“Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which is all the less easy to perceive in that it is everywhere and always.”
“The judges of normality are present everywhere.”
“Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”
“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant—and let the air out of the tires.”
“To be social is to be forgiving.”
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.”
“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual.”
“Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.”
“Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.”
“Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense”
“Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.”
“Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”