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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 aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be…
— Theodor Adorno
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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held…
— Michel Foucault
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
— Victor Hugo
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The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy…
— Germaine Greer
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The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to…
— Anna Quindlen
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When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made…
— J R Ward
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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