Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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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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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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I 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.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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