--- title: "5 Saying Quotes By Michel Foucault" description: "5 Saying quotes by Michel Foucault. Plus more from Michel Foucault and more Saying sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/michel-foucault-1134_death_discourse-is-not-life-its-time-is-not-yo_549937.jpg" --- > [“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/discourse-is-not-life-its-time-is-not-your-time-in-it-you-will-not-be/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/michel-foucault-1134_death_discourse-is-not-life-its-time-is-not-yo_549937.jpg) > [You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/you-may-have-killed-god-beneath-the-weight-of-all-that-you-have-said/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a84/michel-foucault-1134_imagine_you-may-have-killed-god-beneath-the-weig_978869.jpg) > [“Aren't you sure of what you're saying? Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/aren-t-you-sure-of-what-you-re-saying-are-you-going-to-change-yet/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/755/michel-foucault-1134_books_aren-t-you-sure-of-what-you-re-saying-ar_1696827.jpg) > [There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/there-is-no-binary-division-to-be-made-between-what-one-says-and-what/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/michel-foucault-1134_binary_there-is-no-binary-division-to-be-made-b_1975083.jpg) > [“We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/we-must-not-think-that-by-saying-yes-to-sex-one-says-no-to-power/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/michel-foucault-1134_saying_we-must-not-think-that-by-saying-yes-to_2907869.jpg) ## Other authors on Saying ## More by Michel Foucault > [One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/one-should-try-to-locate-power-at-the-extreme-of-its-exercise-where/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/the-book-is-not-simply-the-object-that-one-holds-in-one-s-hands-and/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/but-a-punishment-like-forced-labour-or-even-imprisonment-mere-loss-of/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/death-left-its-old-tragic-heaven-and-became-the-lyrical-core-of-man/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/i-m-no-prophet-my-job-is-making-windows-where-there-were-once-walls/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/let-us-ask-how-things-work-at-the-level-of-on-going-subjugation-at/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/what-makes-power-hold-good-what-makes-it-accepted-is-simply-the-fact/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/it-was-a-matter-of-showing-by-what-conjunctions-a-whole-set-of/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/the-preferred-medications-were-those-that-forestalled-corruption-we/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/the-man-described-for-us-whom-we-are-invited-to-free-is-already-in/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/confined-on-the-ship-from-which-there-is-no-escape-the-madman-is/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/believe-what-is-productive-is-not-sedentary-but-nomadic/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/are-the-prisons-overpopulated-or-is-the-population-over-imprisoned/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/an-american-professor-complained-that-a-crypto-marxist-like-me-was/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) > [Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/withdraw-allegiance-from-the-old-categories-of-the-negative-law-limit/) [Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/saying/michel-foucault/#itemlist", "name": "5 Saying Quotes By Michel Foucault", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michel Foucault" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/discourse-is-not-life-its-time-is-not-your-time-in-it-you-will-not-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/michel-foucault-1134_death_discourse-is-not-life-its-time-is-not-yo_549937.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/michel-foucault-1134_death_discourse-is-not-life-its-time-is-not-yo_549937.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/michel-foucault-1134_death_discourse-is-not-life-its-time-is-not-yo_549937.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have…” — Michel Foucault", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michel Foucault" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/you-may-have-killed-god-beneath-the-weight-of-all-that-you-have-said/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a84/michel-foucault-1134_imagine_you-may-have-killed-god-beneath-the-weig_978869.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a84/michel-foucault-1134_imagine_you-may-have-killed-god-beneath-the-weig_978869.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a84/michel-foucault-1134_imagine_you-may-have-killed-god-beneath-the-weig_978869.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that…” — Michel Foucault", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Aren't you sure of what you're saying? 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