Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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