I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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 game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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