As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo 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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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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 soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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