Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Quotes.

1. "He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection."
- Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

2. "We are entering the age of the infinite examination and of compulsory objectification."
- Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

3. "How could the disciplines and the power that functions in them appear arbitrary, when they merely operate the mechanisms of justice itself, even with a view to mitigating their intensity?"
- Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

4. "A utopia of judicial reticence: take away life, but prevent the patient from feeling it; deprive the prisoner of all rights, but do not inflict pain; impose penalties free of all pain. Recourse to psycho-pharmacology and to various physiological ‘disconnectors’, even if it is temporary, is a logical consequence of this ‘non-corporal’ penality. The"
- Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

5. "Punishment of a less immediately physical kind, a certain discretion in the art of inflicting pain, a combination of more subtle, more subdued sufferings, deprived of their visible display, should not all this be treated as a special case, an incidental effect of deeper changes? And yet the fact remains that a few decades saw the disappearance of the tortured, dismembered, amputated body, symbolically branded on face or shoulder, exposed alive or dead to public view. The body as the major target of penal repression disappeared. By"
- Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison