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Michel Foucault Quotes: "In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates."

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines."

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.




Michel Foucault Quotes: "To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before"

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before



Michel Foucault Quotes: "It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty."

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.




Michel Foucault Quotes: "There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things."

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse."

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.




Michel Foucault Quotes: "Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable."

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 Quotes: "Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am."

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge."

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.




Michel Foucault Quotes: "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting."

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



Michel Foucault Quotes: "There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses."

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi."

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities."

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 Quotes: "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."

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.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "there is no glory in punishing"

there is no glory in punishing



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."

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 Quotes: "The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal."

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline."

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it."

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge."

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic."

Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.



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

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 Quotes: "Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write."

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells."

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court."

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself."

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime"

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry."

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life."

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem."

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories."

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems."

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made."

What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?"

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Government is the right disposition of things."

Government is the right disposition of things.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting."

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



Michel Foucault Quotes: "With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes."

With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent"

everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent



Michel Foucault Quotes: "I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence."

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure"

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear."

Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end."

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.



Michel Foucault Quotes: "Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence...."

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....