Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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