What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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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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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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