Famous quotes containing the words light and/or curing:
“We saw one schoolhouse in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic Church.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)