The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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