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Power Quotes by Michel Foucault
- Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- [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…
- 'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in…
- 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…
- 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…
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not…
- The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love…
- 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…
- ...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity…
- There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the…
- Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are…
- Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit…
- But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted…
- A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes…
- In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated…
- Where there is power, there is resistance.
More Power Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo