"'Truth' is to be understood as a system……" — Michel Foucault
"'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth."
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Michel Foucault
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109 Quotes by Michel Foucault
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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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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use…
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