The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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