"What is prison? It is a machine for grinding out delinquents."

"The history of sexuality is not the history of sexual practices, but the history of the discourse on sexuality."

"One day, perhaps, one will be able to detach the power of the gaze from the power of the state."

"The individual is not a subject, but an effect of power."

"The West has been obsessed with sex for centuries, not because it is repressed, but because it is an object of knowledge and power."