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.
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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Visibility is a trap.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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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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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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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