Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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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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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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