Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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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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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 no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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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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