Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth. Michel Foucault More Quotes by Michel Foucault More Quotes From Michel Foucault What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression Michel Foucault running negative needs One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person. Michel Foucault take-care care persons The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge. Michel Foucault doctors judging teacher If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. Michel Foucault writing book thinking At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is. Michel Foucault moments steps thinking Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance. Michel Foucault surveillance our-society Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? Michel Foucault factories prison school A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest. Michel Foucault kind practice matter To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual. Michel Foucault intellectual mind people There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. Michel Foucault discourse strategy silence [Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice. Michel Foucault theory-of-knowledge theory practice ...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces. Michel Foucault identity exercise desire Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting. Michel Foucault cutting knowing 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 everyday desire love Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves. Michel Foucault density political essence You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated. Michel Foucault differences real house Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history Michel Foucault baking errors long My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. Michel Foucault dangerous Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. Michel Foucault cutting understanding made Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society. Michel Foucault groups power exercise
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