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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Visibility is a trap.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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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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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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