It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Visibility is a trap.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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