My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMaybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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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 individual is the product of power.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Visibility is a trap.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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