We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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