--- title: "4 FOUCAULT MICHEL Quotes" description: "FOUCAULT MICHEL has 4 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-foucault-michel-62564.jpg" --- ![Portrait of FOUCAULT MICHEL](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-foucault-michel-62564.jpg) # FOUCAULT MICHEL **4** quotes in **17** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by FOUCAULT MICHEL > [“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/foucault-michel/marxism-exists-in-nineteenth-century-thought-like-a-fish-in-water/) FOUCAULT MICHEL [Marxism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/marxism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/foucault-michel-62564_marxism_marxism-exists-in-nineteenth-century-tho_567581.jpg) > [ “Calling sex by its name thereafter \[the 17th c.\] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/foucault-michel/calling-sex-by-its-name-thereafter-the-17th-c-became-more-difficult/) Foucault Michel [Censorship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/foucault-michel-62564_censorship_calling-sex-by-its-name-thereafter-the-1_1175862.jpg) > [“The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/foucault-michel/the-game-is-worthwhile-in-so-far-as-we-don-t-know-what-will-be-the-end/) FOUCAULT MICHEL [Football](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/football/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/foucault-michel-62564_football_the-game-is-worthwhile-in-so-far-as-we-d_2344457.jpg) > [“To all those who still wish to talk about man, about his reign or his liberation, to all those who still ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/foucault-michel/to-all-those-who-still-wish-to-talk-about-man-about-his-reign-or-his/) FOUCAULT MICHEL [Freedom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freedom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e0/foucault-michel-62564_freedom_to-all-those-who-still-wish-to-talk-abou_2954680.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/foucault-michel/#itemlist", "name": "FOUCAULT MICHEL Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "FOUCAULT MICHEL" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/foucault-michel/marxism-exists-in-nineteenth-century-thought-like-a-fish-in-water/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/foucault-michel-62564_marxism_marxism-exists-in-nineteenth-century-tho_567581.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/foucault-michel-62564_marxism_marxism-exists-in-nineteenth-century-tho_567581.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/foucault-michel-62564_marxism_marxism-exists-in-nineteenth-century-tho_567581.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere…” — FOUCAULT MICHEL", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. 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