Michel Foucault on individual
Michel Foucault46 quotes“The individual is the product of power.”
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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.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault 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.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault 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.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Visibility is a trap.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault 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.
Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JuvenalJuvenal Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.
Kali UchisKali Uchis National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler The day of individual happiness has passed.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day.
Che GuevaraChe Guevara The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.
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