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Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.

Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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Everywhere
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At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.
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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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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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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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'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.
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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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Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?
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To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before
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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 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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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.
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy the soul is the prison of the body
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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
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It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
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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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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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