Michel Foucault Quotes

For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoided at all costs, was armed uprising, was the armed people, was the workers taking to the streets in an assault against the government.

Michel Foucault

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GovernmentPeopleStreetsWorkers

When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.

Andrea Bocelli

FamilyGreatBestLearnTryingPlay

My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena.

Andres Serrano

WorkSocialArenaImplications

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

Amy Heckerling

PeopleThinkBetterViewBadTrue

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

OpportunityYourselfPeopleMeYou

I am going to support Ola.

Masayoshi Son

I AmSupportGoingAm

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Michelangelo Antonioni

SpaceSayWantMeanSeeEmpty

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Mitchell Baker

PeopleCreateMoreThanProtective

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert

FriendMarriageWomanManChooseHe

If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.

Chris Borland

DayMeDoingYouWhereBetween

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Pope Francis

LiveTrustMeChurchMeaningGoal

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Paul Strand

PeopleCareOthersPhotographCore

I'm personally more of a low-maintenance type of person. I want things to be easy and quick, especially when it comes to getting dressed.

Shelley Hennig

EasyPersonDressedWantMoreQuick

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