Michel Foucault

“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...the practices that we accept rest.”

“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.”

“I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face.”

“People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”

“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”

“The soul is the prison of the body.”

“Visibility is a trap.”

“Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.”

“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”

“Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power.”

“My role is to show people that they are much freer than they feel.”