It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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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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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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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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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 ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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