Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIn civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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The individual is the product of power.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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