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Social Quotes by Michel Foucault
- The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile,…
- 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…
- The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.
- The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic…
- A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that…
- Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of…
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