Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULTKnowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULTNature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTSchools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT