Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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 ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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 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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Visibility is a trap.
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