“In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.”

Lecture 1
Lectures on Education (1855)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 307.

Discipline and Punish (1977)
Source: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“The Pochade Box”, p. 318
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)

&quot;The Uses of Astronomy&quot; (28 July 1856) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16227. <br class="br">Context: The great object of all knowledge is to enlarge and purify the soul, to fill the mind with noble contemplations, to furnish a refined pleasure, and to lead our feeble reason from the works of nature up to its great Author and Sustainer. Considering this as the ultimate end of science, no branch of it can surely claim precedence of Astronomy. No other science furnishes such a palpable embodiment of the abstractions which lie at the foundation of our intellectual system; the great ideas of time, and space, and extension, and magnitude, and number, and motion, and power. How grand the conception of the ages on ages required for several of the secular equations of the solar system; of distances from which the light of a fixed star would not reach us in twenty millions of years, of magnitudes compared with which the earth is but a foot-ball; of starry hosts—suns like our own—numberless as the sands on the shore; of worlds and systems shooting through the infinite spaces

Sweet Morality (p. 235)
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)

An Old Chaos: Humanism and Flying Saucers (p. 81)
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (2013)

"The Bitter Fruits of Deregulation," CounterPunch (2008-09-24)

"An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 328
The Fable of the Bees (1714)