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Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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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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Relations of power are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power.
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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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There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.
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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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it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
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There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations
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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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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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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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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
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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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To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.
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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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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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[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.
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