The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king. — 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
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
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
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
Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions,… — 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 soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have… — 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
