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A couple of new favorites:

A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chains of their own ideas; it is at the stable point of reason that he secures the end of the chain; this link is all the stronger in that we do not know of what it is made and we believe it to be our own work….

Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison," 1975, Page 103

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Once you know that there are no purposes, you also know that there is no accident; for it is only beside a world of purposes that the word 'accident' has meaning.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Gay Science," 1974, Page 168



I like this:

GIFT

You tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
I brought you silence
(for I know silence)
you would say
This is not silence
this is another poem
and you would hand it back to me.

-Leonard Cohen
Stranger Music