"Penal law was not created by the common……" — Michel Foucault

"Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce."

— Michel Foucault

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…
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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Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat… — Ayn Rand
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. — Vladimir Lenin
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We… — Terence McKenna
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. — Vladimir Lenin
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are… — Karl Marx
The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people… — Vladimir Lenin
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of… — Frei Betto
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not… — John Berger
The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother. — Vladimir Lenin
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned… — Tayeb Salih
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the… — Lionel Trilling
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before… — Walter Benjamin

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