Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Visibility is a trap.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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