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Michel Foucault Quotes on Freedom

Michel Foucault was a 20th-century French philosopher, historian, and social theorist, one of the most influential figures of post-war continental philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Michel Foucault on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Michel Foucault:

    “Where there is power, there is resistance.”

  • Attributed to Michel Foucault:

    “I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.”

  • Attributed to Michel Foucault:

    “Visibility is a trap.”

  • Attributed to Michel Foucault:

    “Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are.”

  • Attributed to Michel Foucault:

    “The strategic adversary is fascism: the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour.”

  • Attributed to Michel Foucault:

    “The soul is the prison of the body.”