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Michel Foucault Quotes

Michel Foucault quotes

French Historian October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984

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Michel Foucault quote: "The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise..."
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court. Michel Foucault
We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "People know what they do; they frequently know why they do..."
People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against -..."
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting."
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting. Michel Foucault
...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also..."
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. Michel Foucault
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. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once..."
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Government is the right disposition of things."
Government is the right disposition of things. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "People know what they do; frequently they know why they do..."
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "there is no glory in punishing"
there is no glory in punishing Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but..."
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same."
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault quote: "Visibility is a trap."
Visibility is a trap. Michel Foucault

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