In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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The individual is the product of power.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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