From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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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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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