Order Quotes by Michel Foucault

14 Order quotes by Michel Foucault

Foucault’s 14 quotes on order challenge readers to question the hidden mechanisms that organize societies. His incisive critique uncovers how order can serve as a tool of both discipline and resistance.

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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our…

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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me,…

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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…

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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is…

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Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both…

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We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that…

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Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,…

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If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would…

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[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order…

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The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten,…

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Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity…

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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…

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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…

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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we…

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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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