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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.
Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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I'm not making a problem out of a personal question I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
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