Author: Michel Foucault

Quotes

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

- Michel Foucault

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

- Michel Foucault

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

- Michel Foucault

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

- Michel Foucault

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

- Michel Foucault

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