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 FOUCAULTDo 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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