FOUCAULT MICHEL Quotes & Sayings

The child is more individualised than the adult, the patient more than the healthy man, the madman and the delinquent more than the normal and the non-delinquent. In each case, it is towards the first of these pairs that all the individualising mechanisms are turned in our civilisation and when one wishes to individualise the healthy, normal and law-abiding adult, it is always by asking him how much of the child he has in him, what secret madness lies within him, what fundamental crime he has dreamt of committing — FOUCAULT MICHEL

Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else. — FOUCAULT MICHEL

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end. — FOUCAULT MICHEL