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

• The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Responsibility
  • Social
  • Corporate

• This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Life
  • Road
  • Exercise

• Senator John Kerry is in trouble for making a joke about soldiers being uneducated. As a result, Kerry promised to stop making jokes and stick to boring people.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Stop
  • Senator

• I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Christmas
  • Teach

• There is no glory in punishing.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Glory
  • Punishing