Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThis knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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