In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWith 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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to 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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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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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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