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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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...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to…
— Karl Marx
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
— Friedrich Engels
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The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
— Vladimir Lenin
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
— Karl Marx
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
— Gene Kelly
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As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…
— Karl Marx
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie…
— Michel Foucault
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World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ...…
— Joseph Stalin
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Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood,…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From…
— Saul Alinsky
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