The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. (Michel Foucault)

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

Michel Foucault

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