The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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