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> [I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/i-don-t-write-a-book-so-that-it-will-be-the-final-word-i-write-a-book/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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## More by Michel Foucault

> [One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/one-should-try-to-locate-power-at-the-extreme-of-its-exercise-where/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/the-book-is-not-simply-the-object-that-one-holds-in-one-s-hands-and/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/but-a-punishment-like-forced-labour-or-even-imprisonment-mere-loss-of/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/death-left-its-old-tragic-heaven-and-became-the-lyrical-core-of-man/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/i-m-no-prophet-my-job-is-making-windows-where-there-were-once-walls/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/let-us-ask-how-things-work-at-the-level-of-on-going-subjugation-at/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/what-makes-power-hold-good-what-makes-it-accepted-is-simply-the-fact/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/it-was-a-matter-of-showing-by-what-conjunctions-a-whole-set-of/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/the-preferred-medications-were-those-that-forestalled-corruption-we/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/the-man-described-for-us-whom-we-are-invited-to-free-is-already-in/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/confined-on-the-ship-from-which-there-is-no-escape-the-madman-is/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/believe-what-is-productive-is-not-sedentary-but-nomadic/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/are-the-prisons-overpopulated-or-is-the-population-over-imprisoned/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/an-american-professor-complained-that-a-crypto-marxist-like-me-was/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

> [Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/withdraw-allegiance-from-the-old-categories-of-the-negative-law-limit/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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