"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will n...
Where there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault quotes
"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 comple...
"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...
"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 d...
"Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.
"everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent
"In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human existence—the source of human freedom—is never t...
"The institution of monarchy developed during the Middle Ages against the backdrop of the previously endemic struggles between feudal power agencies. T...
"We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’... in fact power produces, it produce...
"Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
"The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The dis...
"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 fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some obscurely accepted law of reta...
"I'm struck by the difficulty I had in formulating it. When I think back now, I ask myself what else it was that I was talking about in Madness and Civ...
"The necessity of reform mustn’t be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circums...