Michel Foucault

Quotes

• “Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”

• “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”

• “A utopia of judicial reticence: take away life, but prevent the patient from feeling it; deprive the prisoner of all rights, but do not inflict pain; impose penalties free of all pain.”

• “It was the end of a certain kind of tragedy; comedy began, with shadow play, faceless voices, impalpable entities.”

• “It is not a triumphant power...it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy.”