Michel Foucault Quotes

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

The institution of monarchy developed during the Middle Ages against the backdrop of the previously endemic struggles between feudal power agencies. The monarchy presented itself as a referee, aa power capable of putting an end to war, violence, and pillage and saying no to these struggles and private feuds. It made itself acceptable by allocating itself a juridical and negative function, albeit one whose limits it naturally began at once to overstep.

Michel Foucault