michel foucault

“ Truth is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it. ”

“ I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. ”

“ One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person. ”

“ The strategic adversary is fascism. ”

“ To sum up all these steps, each of which is very lengthy and complex, we will have put the game of truth back in the network of constraints and domination. ”

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

“ Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning. ”

“ Power is also exerted over the body, not so much as physical punishment, but as ideological orders. ”

“ The fear before the absolute limit of death becomes interiorized in a continual process of ionization. ”

“ The morality of an era can end an individual... In fact, many times throughout history, intolerance against what society considers 'immoral' has been taken to the extreme. ”