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 FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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