Book Quotes - page 98

This book is intended as a correlative history of the modern soul and of a new power to judge; a genealogy of the present scientifico-legal complex from which the power to punish derives its bases, justifications and rules, from which it extends its effects and by which it extends its effects and by which it masks its exorbitant singularity. (Michel Foucault)
This legible lesson, this ritual recording, must be repeated as often as possible; the punishments must be a school rather than a festival; an ever-open book rather than a ceremony. The duration that makes the punishment effective for the guilty is also useful for the spectators. They must be able to consult at each moment the permanent lexicon of crime and punishment. A secret punishment is a punishment half wasted. Children should be allowed to come to the places where the penalty is being carried out; there they will attend their classes in civics. And grown men will periodically relearn the laws. Let us conceive of places of punishment as a Garden of the Laws that families would visit on Sundays. View quote
Michel Foucault
Do you know freedom exists in a school book Did you know madmen are running our prisons Within a jail Within a gaol Within a white free protestant maelstrom We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us. View quote
Jim Morrison
A book is not completed till it's read. View quote
Salman Rushdie
It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots. View quote
Salman Rushdie
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. View quote
Grace Paley
But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse. View quote
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. View quote
Emily Dickinson
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think. View quote
Emily Dickinson
I don't withdraw a word of my initial statement. But I do now think it may have been incomplete. There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterized by a word like tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. Sincere people who are not ignorant, not stupid, and not wicked can be cruelly torn, almost in two, between the massive evidence of science on the one hand, and their understanding of what their holy book tells them on the other. I think this is one of the truly bad things religion can do to a human mind. There is wickedness here, but it is the wickedness of the institution and what it does to a believing victim, not wickedness on the part of the victim himself. View quote
Richard Dawkins
There is one particular property of living things, however, that I want to single out as explicable only by Darwinian selection. This property is the one that has been the recurring topic of this book: adaptive complexity. (Richard Dawkins)
But there are many unsophisticated Christians out there ... who take the Bible very seriously indeed as a literal and accurate record of history and hence as evidence supporting the religious beliefs. Do these people never open the book that they believe is the literal truth? Why don't they notice the glaring contradictions? View quote
Richard Dawkins
The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Suggest always put Islamic "scholar" in quotes, to avoid insulting true scholars. True scholars have read more than one book. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person. View quote
Rita Dove
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. View quote
Rita Dove
I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards. View quote
Happy Rhodes
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Making a book is such a big enterprise. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
She has a fascination with Mayan prophecies, and she's writing a book that's sort of her remembrance of her past incarnation. Whatever she applies herself to, she makes it this beautiful, glorious world around her. All of us kids have always been artistic because of her influence. (Brandon Boyd)
If you're looking for an open book - Look no further, I am yours. View quote
Brandon Boyd
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow. View quote
Bernard Cornwell