The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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.
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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Visibility is a trap.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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