Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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