Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULTKnowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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 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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