Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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 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 individual is the product of power.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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