The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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