Foucault

 

• “Consequently, it does not matter who exercises power. Any individual, taken almost at random, can operate the machine; in the absence of the director, his family, his friends, his visitors, even his servants (Bentham, 45). Similarly, it does not matter what motive animates him: the curiosity of the indiscreet, the malice of a child, the thirst for knowledge of a philosopher who wishes to visit the museum of human nature, or the perversity of those who take pleasure in spying and punishing.”