It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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 FOUCAULTThis knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
MICHEL FOUCAULTSchools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULTLife itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIslam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
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 FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT