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Function Quotes by Michel Foucault
- In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
- 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…
- [L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we…
- Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated,…
- ... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we…
- Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help…
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- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you… — Rajneesh
- Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind… — Dan Simmons
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson
- Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and… — Barack Obama
- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche