What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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The individual is the product of power.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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.
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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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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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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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 not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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