I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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Visibility is a trap.
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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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