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Michel Foucault has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its…
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines…
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the…
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I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology…
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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a…
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)…
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost…
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property.…
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If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't…
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Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when…
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It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure…
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Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
— Hans Asperger
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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
— Henry Adams
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People are so intimidated by the gay movement that nobody will say why...they won't say why they don't want gay marriage...they don't…
— Scott Lively
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Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to…
— Jae Hee
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Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so…
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