The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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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.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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The individual is the product of power.
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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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