Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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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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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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Visibility is a trap.
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