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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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To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
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Political power goes much deeper than one suspects there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.
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Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.
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