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Michel Foucault Quotes

Michel Foucault quotes

French Historian October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984

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Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power is to reinforce, strengthen and protect the principality, but with this last understood to mean not the objective ensemble of its subjects and territory, but rather the prince's relation with what he owns, with the territory he has inherited or acquired, and with his subjects. Michel Foucault
In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and..."
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. Michel Foucault
[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. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting."
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. Michel Foucault
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "The individual is the product of power."
The individual is the product of power. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Where there is power, there is resistance."
Where there is power, there is resistance. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of..."
I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem. Michel Foucault
The necessity of reform mustn't be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circumstance should one pay attention to those who tell one "Don't criticize, since you are not capable of carrying out a reform." that's ministerial cabinet talk. Critique doesn't have to be the premise of a deduction that concludes, "this then is what needs to be done." It should be an instrument of those who fight, who resist and refuse what is... Michel Foucault
Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present. Michel Foucault
This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of punishment, supervision, and constraint. Michel Foucault
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an..."
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy;..."
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body Michel Foucault

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