Michel Foucault
Power structures, postmodernism
Sayings by Michel Foucault
Where there is power, there is resistance.
The soul is the prison of the body.
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.
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to the bureaucrats and the police to see that our papers are in order.
The most important thing for me is to try to understand how things work.
Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.
The greatest fear of a man is to be found out.
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.
What is prison? It is a machine for grinding out delinquents.
Is it not possible for the judge to be wrong?
Madness is the absence of an oeuvre.
The role of the intellectual is not to tell others what they should do.
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.
The more one is punished, the more one resists.
To be transgressive is to be free.
The greatest danger for the present age is that we may lose our sense of humor.
Our society is not a society of spectacle, but of surveillance.
I am not what I am, I am what I do.
The role of philosophy is to question everything.
The discourse of truth is not always the discourse of freedom.