Michel Foucault Quotes

There is no glory in punishing.

Michel Foucault

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• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Earth

• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • History
  • Justice

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Love
  • Revolution

• You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • Expectations

• What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Why
  • Growing

• I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Challenge
  • Vision
  • Spirit

• I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Future
  • Vision

• I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Teacher
  • Awakener

• My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • She
  • Wife

• Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

  

  Will Ferguson
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Glory

• If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Learning
  • Advice

• Phil Griffin, who happens to be the head of MSNBC, is not a liberal or progressive. I worked at MSNBC; I talked to Phil Griffin many times. I know Phil Griffin. He is not remotely progressive. All he cares about is success in his own career.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Career
  • Success
  • Cares

• The weather is beautiful in Toulon and the girls are beautiful and I don't want to leave.

  

  Bernard Laporte
  • Beautiful
  • Girls
  • Weather

• There is no glory in punishing.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Glory
  • Punishing