Michel Foucault Quotes on Politics
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 politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Michel Foucault:
“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
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Attributed to Michel Foucault:
“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
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Attributed to Michel Foucault:
“Visibility is a trap.”
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Attributed to Michel Foucault:
“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are.”
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Attributed to Michel Foucault:
“Modern man is much sooner judged than seen.”
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Attributed to Michel Foucault:
“The strategic adversary is fascism: the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour.”