Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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The individual is the product of power.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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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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