Quotes by : Michel Foucault

Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness....

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come,....

The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not....

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power,....

All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying....

Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order....

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within....

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place,....

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life....