The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTLife itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULTYou 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULTJustice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULTNature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMadness 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT