"Politics and the economy are not things that……" — Michel Foucault
"Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false."
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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 Dividing Quotes
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they…
— William Blake
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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,…
— Bono
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There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line…
— Nick Cave
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
— John Cleese
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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely…
— Sun Tzu
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