“[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.”
Michel Foucault
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
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