Interesting Quotes

Foucault:
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is
directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
The Panopticon, on the other hand, has a role of amplification; although it
arranges power, although it is intended to make it more economic and more
effective, it does so not for power itself, nor for the immediate salvation of a
threatened society: its aim is to strengthen the social forces to increase
production, to develop the economy, spread education, raise the level of public
morality; to increase the multiply.
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus;
it is a type of power, modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of
instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a
physics or an anatomy of power, a technology.