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Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.
Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.
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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.
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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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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
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The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government. Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.
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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
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'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
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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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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.
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