From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art..

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are..

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. ….

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But….

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at….

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance..

We are freer than we think..

The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class ….

Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere..

...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybo….

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That a….

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

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls..

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people..

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms..

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Th….

Where there is power, there is resistance..

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a compl….

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the be….

What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities..