Quotes About Panopticon

#1. You'll never escape the panopticon thinking like that.

Robyn Schneider

#2. It's that you are having a mental conversation with all the forces that could be watching you and condemning you for your nose-picking (potential or actual) - even though rationally you know that no one can see you. That's the panopticon.

E. Lockhart

#3. If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity (70).

Paul Neilan

#4. You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.

Leslie Jamison

#5. It was one of those country parties where it felt as if no matter where you went you were always being watched by either a live horse or a dead stag, until you found yourself lingering by the washbasin after a piss just to escape this weirdly oppressive ungulate panopticon.

Ned Beauman

#6. I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals.
The Panopticon

Jenn Fagan

#7. The sky's gray and there's mizzle. It's so soft on my skin
it's nothing like rain. It's even softer than the lightest drizzle! Lift my face up, so it can kiss my skin. The Panopticon

Jenn Fagan

#8. Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It's great "customer service," except that you can never get out of the store.

Mark Steyn

#9. Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

Andrew Motion

#10. I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this.
The Panopticon

Jenn Fagan

#11. Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.

Georg Feuerstein

#12. You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

John Twelve Hawks

#13. The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.

Lao-Tzu

#14. Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

Peter Norvig

#15. Think before you speak ... ... think before you don't.

Sameh Elsayed

#16. I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

Halle Berry

#17. As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#18. I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

Sheridan Smith

#19. America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

George Soros

#20. All objects lose by too familiar a view.

John Dryden