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 FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Justice 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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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