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…

- Michel Foucault

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…

- Michel Foucault

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

- Michel Foucault

Where there is power, there is resistance.

- Michel Foucault

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…

- Michel Foucault

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

- Michel Foucault

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.

- Michel Foucault

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

- Michel Foucault

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

- Michel Foucault