“power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown, and what was manifested...Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
![“[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a53/michel-foucault-1134_desire_t-hus-one-should-not-think-that-desire-i_1660638.jpg)
