304 Quotes by Michel Foucault

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime