Foucault Madness And Civilization Quotes & Sayings

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness — Michel Foucault

I don't like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don't want to live in yours. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy. — Henry Adams

First, we cannot overload the human brain. This divinely created brain has fourteen billion cells. If used to the maximum, this human computer inside our heads could contain all the knowledge of humanity from the beginning of the world to the present and still have room left over. Second, not only can we not overload our brain - we also know that our brain retains everything. I often use saying that "The brain acquires everything that we encounter." The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but getting it out. Sometimes we "file" information randomly of little importance, and it confuses us. — Ben Carson

Without losers, where would the winners be? — Casey Stengel

my hair was a mass of tangled curls just like the old days, minus — Karen Marie Moning

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions. — Abraham Lincoln

Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite. — Michel Foucault

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed. — Roger Milla

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. — Warwick Davis

My hailstorm tore them limb from limb. — Mary Weber