In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.” — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what… — 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
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
Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet… — 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
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
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
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
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
“We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring 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 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
“Thus, seeking to produce a typology of forms of the art of government, La Mothe Le Vayer, in a text from the… — 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
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Government is defined as a right manner of disposing things so as to lead not to the form of the common good,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Why am I so interested in politics? But if I were to answer you very simply, I would say this: why shouldn't… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs,… — 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
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
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
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
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
