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One Quotes by Michel Foucault
- To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover…
- People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be…
- If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like…
- There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become…
- 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…
- To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before
- There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different…
- One makes war to win, not because it's just.
- Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one…
- As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
- But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
- Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order…
- [Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and…
- Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
- The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent,…
- From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as…
- There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle