“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones… — 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
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature… — 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
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“There can only be a true life as an other life, and it’s from the point of view of this other life… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life? — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that… — 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
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
