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In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates
— Michel Foucault
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history
— Michel Foucault
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
— Michel Foucault
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.
— FOUCAULT MICHEL
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
— Michel Foucault
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
— Michel Foucault
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness
— Michel Foucault
Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action.
— Michel Foucault
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
— Michel Foucault
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
— Michel Foucault
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.
— Michel Foucault
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
— Michel Foucault
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
— Michel Foucault
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
We are entering the age of the infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
— Michel Foucault
The individual is the product of power.
— Michel Foucault
At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.
— Michel Foucault
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[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
— Michel Foucault
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
— Michel Foucault
No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute.
— Michel Foucault
One makes war to win, not because it's just.
— Michel Foucault
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
— Michel Foucault
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
— Michel Foucault
We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.
— Michel Foucault
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.
— Michel Foucault
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Religion for them [Iranians] was like a promise and guarantee of finding something that would radically change their subjectivity
— Michel Foucault
We are freer than we think.
— Michel Foucault
The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
— Michel Foucault
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
— Michel Foucault
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
