Michel Foucault Quotes

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

Michel Foucault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984

Topics

PowerFunctionDifferentPunish

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

MusicTimeArtSilenceRhythmPoint

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

Maya Rudolph

FunnyWomanI AmChoiceGoalMatter

I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.

Jeff Dunham

ThinkBadBackBoyBecomeOut

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow

First AmendmentFirstAmendmentLocal

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

Robin DiAngelo

TimeRacismThinkDoingOverOnly

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Mary J. Blige

LearnYouBackGoSameExperiences

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Joseph Barbera

FailureDisappointmentThoughtLives

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

Christopher Walken

PeopleVillainBondPlayWantOver

My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.

Clint Smith

OceanMemoryParentsMeAdviceSkin

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

Pierfrancesco Favino

PositiveHeroValueMeNegativeYou

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Susan Sontag

FuturePastPresentMoreExistence

Love can be put off, never abandoned.

Sextus Propertius

LoveNeverAbandonedOffPut

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