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Inspirational Quotes by Michel Foucault
- In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
- To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before
- What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.
- Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
- The soul is the prison of the body.
- Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.
- My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
- I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
- I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
- One makes war to win, not because it's just.
- I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily…
- Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
- The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
- I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else…
- I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
- Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.
- Where there is power, there is resistance.
- Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
- Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
- there is no glory in punishing
- Visibility is a trap.
- There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
- What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento