Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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 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 individual is the product of power.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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