From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULTYou 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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