“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power over himself. And it is the power over oneself that thus regulates one's power over others.”
Michel Foucault
The Essential Foucault: Selections from the Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984
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