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
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must… — 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
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — 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 subject our… — 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 force that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
