304 Quotes by Michel Foucault

Le supplice ne rétablissait pas la justice, il réactivait le pouvoir.

The marvellous logic of the mad which seems to mock that of the logicians because it resembles it so exactly, or rather because it is exactly the same, and because at the secret heart of madness, at the core of so many errors, so many absurdities, so many words and gestures without consequence, we discover, finally, the hidden perfection of a language.

Madness, in which the values of another age, another art, another morality are called into question but which also reflects - blurred and disturbed, strangely compromised by one another in a common chimera - all the forms, even the most remote, of the human imagination.

U doba klasicizma, englesku setu rado objašnjavaju uticajem morskog podneblja: studen, vlaga, promenljivost vremena, sve one sićušne vodene kapi što prodiru u pore i tkiva tela čovečjeg i čine da ono izgubi jedrinu, utiru put ludilu.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite.

The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.