Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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