"I'm no prophet. My job is making windows……" — Michel Foucault

"I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls."

— Michel Foucault

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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of…
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack…
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on…
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one…
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in…
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who…
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of…
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us…
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 Job Quotes

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about… — Neil Armstrong
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot… — Gerard Arpey
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling… — Rowan Atkinson
In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just… — Rowan Atkinson
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to… — David Attenborough
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's… — Paul Auster
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job… — Joe Baca
I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. — Michele Bachmann

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