Quotes by : Michel Foucault

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

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

There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze,....

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities....

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

There has been so much action in the past,” said D.H. Lawrence, “especially sexual action, a wearying....

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

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

After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation,....

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with;....