The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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 feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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