"it is the certainty of being punished and……" — Michel Foucault
"it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime"
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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 Certainty Quotes
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner…
— Jonathan Carroll
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