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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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 individual is the product of power.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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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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