Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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