Michel Foucault
Power structures, postmodernism
Sayings by Michel Foucault
Power is not a thing, but a relationship.
The history of ideas is not the history of ideas.
Life is a game, and I play it with a certain amount of cynicism.
The present is not a given; it is a construction.
There is no power without resistance.
The prison is the only place where a man can be himself.
The madman is the man who has lost everything but himself.
Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power.
I am not a prophet, I am a diagnostician.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
We must not think that the power of the state is a monolithic block.
Pleasure and power are not mutually exclusive.
The greatest danger for man is to become a slave.
The history of madness is the history of silence.
The work of art is a scream.
I dream of a society where the power of the state is reduced to a minimum.
We should not try to understand power, but rather to understand how power works.
The history of truth is a history of error.
The intellectual's role is to show how things work.
The human sciences are a kind of counter-science.