"In its function, the power to punish is……" — Michel Foucault
"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
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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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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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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that…
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More Curing Quotes
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without,…
— Valerius Geist
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence…
— Porphyry
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Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the…
— Stephanie S. Tolan
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I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do.…
— Ron Perlman
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It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.
— Charles Barkley
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"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than…
— Ann Coulter
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Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
— Austin O'Malley
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