Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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There is no glory in punishing.
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The individual is the product of 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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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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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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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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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