"Madness is the absolute break with the work……" — Michel Foucault
"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
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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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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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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There…
— Jonathan Schell
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent…
— Ronald Reagan
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.…
— Karl Marx
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of…
— George Washington
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave…
— Margaret E. Knight
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of…
— Henry George
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