The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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