Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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 left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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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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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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