"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." ― Michel Foucault |
"Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret."
― 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 |
"People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does."
― Michel Foucault |
"It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge."
― Michel Foucault |
"Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action."
― Michel Foucault
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"Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are."
― Michel Foucault |
"The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes." ― Michel Foucault |
"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions" ― Michel Foucault |
"I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place"
― Michel Foucault
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"It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime"
― Michel Foucault |
"Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves."
― Michel Foucault
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"The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines." ― Michel Foucault |
"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 |
"What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?" ― Michel Foucault |
"Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people."
― Michel Foucault |
"The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court."
― Michel Foucault |
"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
― Michel Foucault |
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