"There is not one but many silences, and……" — Michel Foucault
"There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses."
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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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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on…
— John O. Brennan
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of…
— Tony Campolo
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One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy,…
— Nick Clegg
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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world…
— Eric Alterman
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is…
— Jacques Ellul
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
— Salman Rushdie
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it…
— John Steinbeck
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