Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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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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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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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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