Michel Foucault Quotes
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
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If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like we would if this were real.
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
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Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.
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In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you that Al Gore's 10-year plan is impossible. I'm old enough to remember the Second World War - if we had a World War II-type mobilization, we might accomplish Gore's plan. In 1940 we were making tens of thousands of automobiles, and in 1941 we were making tens of thousands of airplanes. We mobilized as a nation. If we get that kind of mobilization as a nation or globally, then we could solve a lot of these problems.
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At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'
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People don't necessarily want to step away from what they think they know of you. Getting to know this whole other persona and all of the things that come along with that, it can be confusing for people.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.
