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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.

Michel Foucault

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Discover Philosophy
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Education People Serve
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Freedom Liberty
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Desire Man Nature
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Philosophy Religious
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Power Sex Thinking
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Adventure Deep Dream Place
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

People Religion Spirit World
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Bad Dangerous Myself
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Absence Myself Problem
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth

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