Michel Foucault Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Michel Foucault:
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
~Michel Foucault
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
~Michel Foucault
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In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.
~Michel Foucault
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We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
~Michel Foucault
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
~Michel Foucault
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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
~Michel Foucault
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
~Michel Foucault
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
~Michel Foucault
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Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.
~Michel Foucault
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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
~Michel Foucault
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
~Michel Foucault
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
~Michel Foucault
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The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.
~Michel Foucault
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
~Michel Foucault
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It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.
~Michel Foucault
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
~Michel Foucault
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Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.
~Michel Foucault
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
~Michel Foucault
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There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
~Michel Foucault
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