"The judges of normality are present everywhere. We……" — Michel Foucault
"The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge."
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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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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
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You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your…
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his…
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I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two…
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How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas…
— Nellie Bly
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil.…
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I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because…
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