Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer

Quotes by Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer |

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”

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[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

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. At least spare us their morality when we write.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

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.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

Sexuality is not natural; it is a historically contingent concept that is shaped by cultural norms and power dynamics.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

...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 | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

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...

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

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. At least spare us their morality when we write.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence,

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

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.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

The 'enlightenment,' which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

Where there is power, there is resistance.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

I am fully aware that I have in me something like a spiritual/intellectual breathalyzer, which prevents me from being drunk with any kind of ideology.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

Resistance is not futile; it is a vital form of agency that disrupts dominant power structures and opens up new possibilities for change.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

Truth is not objective; it is a product of power-knowledge regimes that shape what can be known and said.

[Michel Foucault | Philosopher & Writer @QuoteFoucault]

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...