"Schools serve the same functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people"
#Foucault
#Philosophy #books
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"Where there is power, there is resistance"
#Foucault
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"Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement"
#VirginiaWoolf
#Literature #books
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"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which established authorities are wrong"
#Voltaire
#Philosophy
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"The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearence of wisdom"
#Voltaire
#Philosophy
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities,
can make you commit atrocities"
#Voltaire
#Philosophy
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murders are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"
#Voltaire
#Philosophy
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"Let's us #read, and let us #dance; these two amusements will never do harm to the world"
#Voltaire
#Philosophy
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"One believes thinsgs because one has been conditioned to believe them"
#AldousHuxley
#Literature
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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want #poetry, I want real danger, I want #freedom, I want goodness. I want sin"
#AldousHuxley
#Literature
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"Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. That's why I have to keep these books locked up in the safe"
#AldousHuxley
#Literature
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"The ruling class in every age have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers"
#GeorgeOrwell
#Literature
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"Who controls the #past controls the #future. Who controls the #present controls the past"
#GeorgeOrwell
#Literature
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"The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same"
#GeorgeOrwell
#Literature
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"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth"
#GeorgeOrwell
#Literature
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"This #war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous"
#GeorgeOrwell
#Literature
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"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought"
#GeorgeOrwell
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