I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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