Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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