Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIn civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The individual is the product of power.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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