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Michel Foucault

... we are obliged to produce...

... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes
Michel Foucault

Schools serve the same social...

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Michel Foucault 181 quotes
Michel Foucault

'The prison' begins well befo...

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

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Michel Foucault

The first task of the doctor ...

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

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Michel Foucault

A critique does not consist i...

A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

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Michel Foucault

Truth is not by nature free -...

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

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Michel Foucault

The language of psychiatry, w...

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

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Michel Foucault

Is it surprising that prisons...

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

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Michel Foucault

'Truth' is to be understood a...

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

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Michel Foucault

Relations of power "are indis...

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

Michel Foucault 181 quotes
Michel Foucault

Madness, in its wild, untamab...

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

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Michel Foucault

I don't write a book so that ...

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

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Michel Foucault

...it's my hypothesis that th...

...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.

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Michel Foucault

Since the Fall, man had accep...

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.

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Michel Foucault

The judges of normality are p...

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.

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Michel Foucault

A critique is not a matter of...

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.

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Michel Foucault

What makes power hold good, w...

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

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Michel Foucault

I am hopelessly in love with ...

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

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Michel Foucault

The soul is the effect and in...

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

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Michel Foucault

Penal law was not created by ...

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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