There is no glory in punishing.
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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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 individual is the product of power.
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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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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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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 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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to 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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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