Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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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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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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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