Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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