The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo 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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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULTJustice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI 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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Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
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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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe 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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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom 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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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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMadness 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 the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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