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

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.

Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.

I don’t really like organizations where people are “deemed” things.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

The House is in the house" Chapter 38

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.