Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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