Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDeath left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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