Michel Foucault Quotes

"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
-Michel Foucault

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."
-Michel Foucault

"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

"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

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
-Michel Foucault

"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."
-Michel Foucault