Michel Foucault

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  • “Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.” -Michel Foucault

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  • “Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.” -Michel Foucault

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  • “Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.” -Michel Foucault

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  • “If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.” -Michel Foucault

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  • “Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.” -Michel Foucault

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  • “What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.” -Michel Foucault

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  • If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. – Michel Foucault

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