Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines… — 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
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 must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we… — 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
![“[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82d/michel-foucault-1134_demand_l-et-us-say-that-we-are-obliged-to-produ_1585997.jpg)
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