Michel Foucault

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

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.