Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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 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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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 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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Visibility is a trap.
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