I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’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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The individual is the product of power.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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