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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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You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
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We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.
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Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want…
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Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of…
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I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if…
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God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is…
— Criss Jami
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Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by…
— Craig Stone
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know…
— Ornette Coleman
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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those…
— Michel Foucault
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I’m sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we had fun,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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