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 FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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