The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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 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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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