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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.
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The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
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Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.
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What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.
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Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.
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Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?
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There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
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I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on.
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Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.
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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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One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
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Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
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If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.
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