Michel Foucault Quotes

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Michel Foucault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LovePowerBehaviorDesireEveryday

I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.

Andrew Haigh

FeelWantPassionateTellOnly

I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

IntelligenceThinkImpactHumanJobs

I used to do this huge jump off the drum riser. I had a good way of landing so I wouldn't hurt myself, but then one time, I landed on my elbow.

St. Lucia

GoodTimeMyselfHurtJumpWay

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

Martin Winterkorn

ImportantWillThe Most Important

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

Jonathan Kozol

ChildrenCollegePrisonEndGoWill

I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.

Johnny Galecki

StepFaceTreesSandYouChristmas

I think it's important for people to stay human and remember that genuine human connection is more fulfilling than anything that technology has to offer. We all have it within us, and music is something that can bring that out of us.

Jon Batiste

MusicTechnologyPeopleThinkHuman

Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.

Deborah Tannen

CultureArgumentLivingAtmosphere

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

Cornel West

ResponsibilityActionPersonalAlways

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Claire McCaskill

WorkHistoryGreatProblemsLook

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

Anthony Holden

SuccessTimeMoneyWordsWedding

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

Mario Cuomo

I AmWorldDirectionYouTakeSlime

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