We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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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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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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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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