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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTJustice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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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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Visibility is a trap.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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