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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIslam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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