Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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