"The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in……" — Michel Foucault
"The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order."
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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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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 those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that…
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More Confines Quotes
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,…
— John Berger
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Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
— Jo Brand
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds,…
— Chuck Hagel
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I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles…
— Lenny Bruce
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Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had…
— John Joseph Griffin
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The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though…
— Paul Hasluck
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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night,…
— William Shakespeare
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