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Form Quotes by Michel Foucault
- It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
- Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the…
- 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 says…
- It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching…
- Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a…
- Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a…
- Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political…
- We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add…
- Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe,…
- The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
- In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated…
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