Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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