3 Quotes by Michael Foucault

Sadism is not a name finally given to a practice as old as Eros; it is a massive cultural fact which appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century, and which constitutes one of the greatest conversations of Western imagination: unreason transformed into delirium of the heart, madness of desire, the insane dialogue of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite.

It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.

Writing consists essentially of doing something that allows me to discover something I hadn’t initially seen.