Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Visibility is a trap.
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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 soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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The individual is the product of power.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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