There is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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