"Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population……" — Michel Foucault
"Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?"
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault has 109 quotes on this site.
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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in…
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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…
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of…
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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…
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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…
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More Imprisoned Quotes
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
— Samuel Butler
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
— Helen Prejean
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed…
— Lance Morrow
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If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing…
— David Icke
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the…
— Watchman Nee
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Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to…
— Henri Nouwen
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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
— George Will
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We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and…
— Emma Watson
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If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone,…
— Moby
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