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.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

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.

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.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

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

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Life is education, it only end in death.

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!

When "everything is awesome" we may miss what (and Who) is truly deserving of awe.

Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.

Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.