“Exercise is the technique by which one imposes on the body tasks that are both repetitive and different, but always graduated. By bending behavior towards a terminal state, exercise makes possible a perpetual characterization of the individual…It thus assures, in the form of continuity and constraint, a growth, an observation, a qualification.”
Discipline and Punish (1977)
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Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 239

“The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.”
Thoughts on the Natural Rights of Servants and Peasants, 1778.

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A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)

Source: Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events, (1989), p. 127, as cited in: John Gowdy (1994) Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society and the Environment. p. 148

The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European (2005)

“Meditation is a state of mind in which the operation and exercise of will is not.”
3rd Public Talk, Bangalore, India (13 January 1973)
1970s

Source: Rules of Sociological Method, 1895, p. 10