"We should not be content to say that……" — Michel Foucault
"We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power."
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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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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is…
— Rajneesh
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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it,…
— Unknown Author
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Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to…
— Pema Chodron
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As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.
— Karl Marx
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually…
— Dean Koontz
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Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is…
— James Q. Wilson
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