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
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
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
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
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body — 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
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
“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
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
