Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Visibility is a trap.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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.
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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