Love Quotes by Michel Foucault

11 Love quotes by Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault’s love observations are filtered through his critical eye on power and society. In this concise collection of eleven, he offers thought‑provoking, concise reflections that challenge conventional notions of affection.

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Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

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To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

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What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

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One makes war to win, not because it's just.

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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

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If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have…

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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes…

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Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is…

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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to…

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One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

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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:…

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“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of…

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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

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I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

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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…

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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…

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“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of…

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“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and…

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“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than…

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“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with…

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Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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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…

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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

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