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.

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.

And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...

Everyone's future is in reality uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.