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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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School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull…
— John Taylor Gatto
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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
— Caleb Carr
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time…
— Ai Weiwei
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Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
— Gore Vidal
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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society…
— Janet Suzman
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When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
— Horace Mann
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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
— Susan Griffin
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A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like…
— Jose Padilha
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Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug…
— Ivan Illich
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
— Saul Bellow
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