The individual is the product of power.
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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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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