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Michel Foucault  Quotes
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed...

—Michel Foucault

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PowerResistance
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In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.

—Michel Foucault

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CrimeKings
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[…] marginile unei cărţi nu sunt niciodată clar şi riguros trasate: dincolo de titlu, de primele r nduri şi de punctul final, mai presus de configuraţia sa internă şi de forma care îi conferă autonomie,...

—Michel Foucault

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BookBooksDiscourse
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The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The disciplinary methods reversed this relation, lowered the...

—Michel Foucault

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ControlDescriptionPower
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We demand that sex speak the truth […] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our...

—Michel Foucault

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In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one ‘episteme’ that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.

—Michel Foucault

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Philosophy-Of-Life
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Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in...

—Michel Foucault

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Education
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The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some obscurely accepted law of retaliation. It was the effect, in the...

—Michel Foucault

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CrimePowerPunishment
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It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence and has only recently relaxed its hold somewhat, allowing us to question it...

—Michel Foucault

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PhilosophyRepressionSex
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We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games...

—Michel Foucault

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IronyPlayRituals
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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than “politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting...

—Michel Foucault

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Crowd-SourcingElitismIntellectualism
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[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power...

—Michel Foucault

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FoucaultLawPower
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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 what they do does.

—Michel Foucault

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PhilosophyWisdom
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Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become...

—Michel Foucault

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AuthorityBarracksDiscipline
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The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in his own domains, to bring assumptions and things taken for granted again into...

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CitizenshipFoucaultIntellectual
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Le fou ce ne sera plus l’exilé, celui qu’on repousse dans les marges de nos villes, mais celui qu’on rend étranger à lui même en le culpabilisant d’être celui qu’il est.

—Michel Foucault

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AlienationMadnessSociety
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Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at...

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CensorshipFoucaultHistory
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based;...

—Michel Foucault

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JudgmentNormality
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The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape...

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BooksFantasticFantasy
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Visibility is a trap.

—Michel Foucault

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Critical-TheoryPhiloaophySociety
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this, then, is what needs to be done.” It should be an instrument for those for who fight, those who resist and refuse what is. Its use should be in processes of conflict and confrontation,...

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ActivismCriticismPhilosophy
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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light...

—Michel Foucault

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FoucaultSexuality
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Sviluppate la vostra legittima stranezza.

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FreedomIdentityLife
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And if it is true that the image still has the function of speaking, of transmitting something consubstantial with language, we must recognize that it already no longer says the same thing; and that by...

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LanguagePainting
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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities – those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert,...

—Michel Foucault

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PhilosophySexuality
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But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

—Michel Foucault

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Civilization
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

—Michel Foucault

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Human-KnowledgeNatureSecrets
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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the...

—Michel Foucault

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AuthorsWritersWriting
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All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning — not one drop...

—Michel Foucault

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ArtCriticismMagritte
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Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to...

—Michel Foucault

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CuriosityFoucault
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

—Michel Foucault

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DesireNatureNorms
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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

—Michel Foucault

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LoveMemoriesMemory
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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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HappinessOptimismResistance
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Where there is power, there is resistance.

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ActivismLeftismPower
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Government is the right disposition of things.

—Michel Foucault

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Government
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Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t...

—Michel Foucault

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DiscourseGodLanguage
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There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

—Michel Foucault

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Power
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The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power. In the seventeenth century, and even in the early eighteenth century, it was not, therefore, with all its theatre of terror, a lingering hang-over from...

—Michel Foucault

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CrimeExecutionPunishment
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Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

—Michel Foucault

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KnowledgePower
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